Stalin. View from the outside

In a unique edition dedicated to Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, various points of view on the personality of the leader are presented, including completely opposite. These grades can be immediately compared with the formulations of the classic Soviet historical officials of that time - a brief biography of Stalin, approved and edited by the leader himself. The publication contains the memoirs of contemporaries met with the main character (this has already happened), and excerpts from the works of domestic and foreign historians, who studied both the leader of the Bolsheviks and the history of the Soviet Union during his reign. Most of them are united by the fact that the creators of these works rightly saw the key to understanding the personality of Stalin in the study of archival documents of that era. The compilers of the publication also succeeded in this direction, presenting in the collection numerous documents that only recently became available to researchers