A comprehensive biography of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin that describes his impoverished childhood, abusive father, and transformation into one of the world's most powerful and merciless leader.
The twentieth century was the most violent in recorded history. One hundred million people died during the century's wars and a quarter of a billion people were murdered by their own governments.
Using recently uncovered archival materials, personal interviews, and a familiarity with Russian culture, two young Russian historians have offered a major interpretation of the Cold War as seen from the Soviet point of view.
Chronicles the life of Joseph Stalin, contradicting and disproving conventional beliefs about the leader's life and mysterious death, covering events and developments either unknown or distorted in previous books.
Presents a comprehensive analysis of the social and political cataclysm that spread throughout Europe between 1914 and 1945; and describes how the world was changed by the events of two world wars, the Russian Revolution, the Holocaust, and the rise and fall of Hitler's Third Reich.
Discusses, in text and illustrations, the events in the world between the years 1919 and 1939 and the emergence of dictators such as Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, and Franco.
