Member Reviews

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  • Rated 5 stars

  “What a story! If you can stand the choppy English (really isn't bad, but can mislead) this is a new vision of Stalin based on secret files just made public to scholars. I had to set it down and then come back; too many people killed by Stalin. But I hung in and was glad I did. The description of his death was entirely new to me and I suspect others, too. Well worth the struggle...gives a great insight into what really "drove" him in his life. mizzou”

  R H wrote this review Friday, May 2 2008. ( reply | permalink )
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  • Rated 5 stars

  “"Fact is stranger than fiction." This line should be the 11th commandment or affirmation or whatever. Here's the proof. Erasing your best friends from photos?! After you've killed them?! No novelist would have ever thought of that. Frightening to the bone.”

  SkoolyF wrote this review Friday, March 28 2008. ( reply | permalink )
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  • Rated 3 stars

  “i don't know how to rate the first "great book" about stalin. very informative, good about giving one the sense of life under stalin. it is a bit repetitive though in parts.”

  cbelle wrote this review Tuesday, September 11 2007. ( reply | permalink )