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Opening Soviet Archives Providing New Insight Into Stalin’s Mind

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6/3/10 at 2:51am
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Historians today are only coming to understand the complex and sophisticated individual that was Joseph Stalin, who ruled Russia for nearly thirty years until his death in 1953. Much of the information shedding light on the character of the dictator is being unearthed from the archives of the Soviet Union, opened in the 1990s after the collapse of Communism, and which is the source material for a series of some 25 books titled The Annals of Communism, published by Yale University Press. Now Jonathan Brent, former editorial director of the Press, has written a companion “Inside The Stalin Archives” to help get at what he terms is “a true understanding of one of the giant phenomena of the 20th century” that was Soviet Communism.

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6/3/10 at 2:56am
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Re: Opening Soviet Archives Providing New Insight Into Stalin’s Mind

This book was written by a journalist and not a historian and therefore goes off into the land of personal moments and judgments of modern day Russia instead of just sticking to the facts like a true history. I learned this from reading reviews not this article. This article gives a brief into life in Soviet Russia under Stalin and how it relates to modern Russia and Putin, specifically. Although, I have read a great deal about Stalin, it has always been from an American perspective - ie his relations with the US as opposed to in his own country. I am not sure if I will buy the book or not. All this personal moments stuff is disappointing. Hopefully, an actual historian will write a book from these archival works.
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