Stalin. The life of one leader

The debate about how great the sole role of Stalin in the mass repressions against its own population, unleashed in the 30s of the last century and called the "Big Terror", has not subsided for many decades. The book of Oleg Klevnyuk will be interesting to those who are trying to find the answer to this and other questions: did the country that jumped from the monarchy to socialism have a different path? Has the absolute power accidentally went to one person and could it limit it? What is the role of Stalin in defeats and victories in the Great Patriotic War? Unlike the authors who are trying to turn to Stalin or are looking for an easy way to the reader’s heart, choosing piquant details, Khlevnyuk creates a large -scale, detailed and reliable portrait of the country and its leader. A world -famous scientist, the author relies only on proven sources and actually proves that the facts are more fascinating and eloquent than any fiction. Oleg Khlevnyuk is a doctor of historical sciences, a leading researcher at the International Center for History and Sociology of the Second World War and its consequences of the National Research University "Higher School of Economics", chief specialist of the State Archive of the Russian Federation.