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Joseph Stalin is one of the most controversial characters in world history. Interest in his personality is phenomenal. Many hundreds of domestic and foreign authors who wrote a lot of books about Stalin did not manage to fully satisfy it.
Who is he, this "Russian man of Georgian origin", who has become one of the main symbols of the Soviet era?
"giant", "politician of extraordinary energy and the unbending power of will", "one of the greatest figures of modern history, - as Bernard Show said, Winston Churchill and Yukho Paasikivi?
"outstanding mediocrity", - as Lev Trotsky stated?
"Genius Evil", "Bloody Patach", "Tyran", - As anti -Stalinists say?
What role did Stalin play in history?
A book, offered to the attention of a respected reader, will help him in search of his own answer to these questions.
Compiled by N.V. Ilievsky