Stalin as Warlord by Alfred J. Rieber

Stalin as Warlord by Alfred J. RieberAn authoritative account of Stalin as a wartime leadershowing how his paradoxical policies of mass mobilization and repression affected all aspects of Soviet society A superb new history. . . . Rieber analyses with clarity the impact of the war.Wendy Slater, Times Literary Supplement The Second World War was the defining moment in the history of the Soviet Union. With Stalin at the helm, it emerged victorious at a huge economic and human cost. But

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