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The Secret File of Joseph Stalin: A Hidden Life

Roman Brackman

3.50 · Rating details · 12 ratings · 2 reviews

This account of Stalin's life begins with his early years, the family breakup caused by the suspicion that the boy was the result of an adulterous affair, the abuse by his father and the growth of the traumatized boy into criminal, spy, and finally one of the 20th century's political monsters. ...more

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Hardcover, 466 pages

Published September 29th 2000 by Routledge

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Aug 09, 2020 Gregory Tabachnik rated it it was ok

The book describes many real life events and facts. But the author provides his own perceptions and beliefs of some of those events as proven facts. Not always it is correct. For example, his claims about Stalin's poisoning of Lenin and Sverdlov, orders to kill Gamarnik and Ordzonikidze are just nonproven speculations, not facts. Even the major plot of this book - Stalin's role as an agent provocateur of tsarist Okhrana is not proven to be valid by historians and is debated up to this day. Most ...more

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May 21, 2016 Yves Panis rated it really liked it

Bon. La thèse du livre est que Staline a été un espion de l'Okhrana. Et que finalement toute sa politique de terreur s'explique par son soucis d'effacer les traces de son passé pré-révolutionnaire. Difficile de se faire une opinion. Car les historiens récents n'en parlent plus. Peu importe finalement car le livre reste passionnant et foisonne d'anecdotes. ...more

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