Stalin between the myth and reality. Firsov S.

Analysis of myths associated with the life of an outstanding person helps not only to better evaluate “fragments of reality”, but also to understand why this “reality” invariably and inevitably serves the foundation for the construction of new “fairy tale stories”.

The book “Stalin: between myth and reality” can be interesting not only to historians and social psychologists, but also to everyone who is important to understand how much and why the relatively recent past is an instrument with which the current apologists of Stalin try to “model” the future, subordinating its ideological and political tasks of our time.