Khlevnyuk O. V. Stalin. The Life of a Leader: A Biography. Moscow: AST Publishing House: CORPUS, 2024. 464 p.: Book review
Abstract
The work is devoted to the study of the personality of I. V. Stalin. The author examines the activities of the long-term leader of the Soviet state from the perspective of the “totalitarian school” of historians. From this work, the reader can gain a comprehensive understanding of the assessments of I. V. Stalin in the liberal historiography of the 1990s. The author has used a wide range of sources and literature in writing this work.
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- Received: February 11, 2026.
- Published: February 18, 2026.
Keywords
- личность И. В. Сталина
- историки «тоталитарной школы»
- либеральная историография
- Вторая мировая война
- personality of I. V. Stalin
- historians of the “totalitarian school”
- liberal historiography
- World War II
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