Joseph Stalin

Leading Lives

by David Downing

This series covers key leaders in history and explores their lives and achievements. Each book examines the person's early years, studies and interests, professional life, low points and their legacy. An underlying theme throughout the series is whether an individual can change the course of history. Each book - feature panels detailing the lives of colleagues, rivals and others, sources, quotes and eyewitness accounts - further reading and websites - a timeline and maps - glossary and index

Genres: History, Biography

Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

David Downing is the author of a political thriller, two alternative histories and a number of books on military and political history and other subjects as diverse as Neil Young and Russian Football.

Reviews

[Shelli · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good introduction to Stalin and his social/economical reforms to the Soviet Union. While the book mentions his cruelty, paranoid reign of terror it doesn't go into specifics and presents the information in as unbiased a way as possible. For a better understanding students should not have this be their only resource.

[Shivek Bhanote · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like topics about what happened during the wars. I already knew a little bit about Stalin but I learned a lot from this book. It tells his feelings while he did things, so we understand to know what type of person he is.

[Wilde Sky · Rating 4 out of 5]

A short biography of a famous leader.

I found this book fascinating - detailing many of the key events in his life and times.

Reading time around one hour.

[Carolyn Lockwood · Rating 3 out of 5]

The pictures are good. Otherwise, it 2as just okay.