Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His Books by Geoffrey Roberts new in The story is intricate and

The story is intricate and evokes another world

of frantic brushes with police and moments of ecstatic oblivion in the wasteland

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Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His Books by Geoffrey Roberts new in The story is intricate and'Innovative and intriguing: the warlord and mass murderer as bookworm, librarian and intellectual. A fascinating read' David Reynolds, co author of The Kremlin Letters In this engaging life of the twentieth centurys most self consciously learned dictator, Geoffrey Roberts explores the books Stalin read, how he read them, and what they taught him. Stalin firmly believed in the transformative potential of words, and his voracious appetite for reading