Stalin: The Man and His Era (Book Two)

"The character of Stalin's dictatorship is admirably described and analyzed in Ulam's impressive book. It provides a richly detailed account of Stalin's political development, of his purges in the thirties and forties, and of his role in World War II and in the cold war that followed. But it is much more than a biography of Stalin: it is also a history of the Bolshevik party, of the Russian Revolution and of the Soviet regime up to Stalin's death in 1953... Ulam writes with vigor and with p...