Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar

The book is a must read for anyone interested in the corruptibility of leaders and their sycophant's when all of the checks and balances have been removed. Close to the potential realty that was recently experienced. If you do not know what communism is: read this book and then progress to the Gulag books. Books from A. Solzhenitsyn or O. Figeos or A. Applebaum, or Y. Zamyatin or D. Karp-'One", for example.

Das Buch über Stalin und seinen direkten Kreis ist gut und fließend geschrieben. Wenn man etwas weniger Zeit zur Verfügung hat und trotzdem gut informiert über diese Konstellation werden möchte, würde ich dieses Buch herzlichst empfehlen.

This book is a colossal achievement of an researcher who has the unique and quite remarkable ability to tell a complex story with astonishing ease and simplicity. It covers Russian history thickly between 1931-1952, while casting more light on the personalities, uncertainties, opportunistic policies, privileged livelihood, conspiracies etc. of Bolshevik Russia under stalin and his subordinates. However binding of this book is not good enough that's why it created some problems for me.

Llegó perfecto, y es un libro que debería leer todo el mundo.Muy bien escrito, documentadísimo, ameno, con ritmo y tempos. Y realmente, pasé miedo leyéndolo, es increíble lo que puede llegar a hacer y conseguir un hombre.Lo conservo, y lo haré como regalo a mi alrededor.

This is a detailed account of the reign of Stalin from the late twenties until his death. His was a regime marked by utter indifference to human life and suffering ( compassion for the individual was a bourgois indulgence ) ; vast numbers died through starvation and executions, while countless others were imprisoned and subjected to torture for imaginary offences. Stalin's kingdom was both madhouse and slaughterhouse, and his crimes still deserve to be better known in the West. In his final years, Stalin became even more dangerously suspicious, paranoid and vicious....by the time he died, a new Terror was brewing, and possibly, a major confrontation with the USA. .Organized into easily consumed short chapters, this book is both fascinating and shocking ; as the author makes clear, for all their grotesque acts, the red tsar and his henchmen were ordinary people acting under enormous psychological pressure, and no-one, apart from the Supremo, was free from the fear of arrest and execution....