Joseph Stalin Man and Legend

by Ronald Hingley

Book by Hingley, Ronald

Genres: History

482 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1994

About the author

Dr. Ronald Francis Hingley (1920-2010) was a scholar, translator and historian of Russia, specializing in Russian history and literature.

Hingley was editor of the nine-volume collection of Chekhov's works published by Oxford University Press between 1974 and 1980. He also wrote numerous books including biographies of Chekhov, Dostoyevsky, Stalin and Boris Pasternak. He won the James Tait Black Award for his 1976 biography A New Life of Anton Chekhov . He also translated several works of Russian literature, among them Alexander Solzhenitsyn's classic One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich which Hingley co-translated with Max Hayward.

He was a Governing Body Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford from 1961 to 1987 and an Emeritus Fellow from 1987 onwards.

His son is the musician Tom Hingley.

Reviews

[Max Hiznay · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not impressed at this material. Lots of baseless and historically incorrect assertions are made by the author about the Deaths of Sergei Kirov, Frunze, Maxim Gorky, Solomon Mikhoels, etc. Even most modern “cold warrior” historians of the Stalin period do not attempt to argue to make these claims and have the benefit of access to the Soviet archives.