![]() ![]() Joseph Vissarionovich, the streetwise kid from Georgia, could make anyone feel special and cared for. One is that Stalin's power over the Party was a matter of charm rather than fear. Sebag Montefiore makes some interesting new assertions about Stalin's psychology. I don't want to be wondering what he was like in bed. Returning to the blight of Stalinism on the 20th century, I would rather have been laid low by the horror of mass suffering, to have felt anew the devastating impact of a chronicle like Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago to have had a clear picture of that venal, calculating aberration from rational humanity whom Alan Bullock painted in Hitler and Stalin. When I read half of this 600-page tome at one sitting, I spent the rest of the evening haunted by visions of the sexual depravity of Stalin's henchman, Yezhov. ![]()
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