Originally published between 1952 and 1989 the 3 volumes in this set

• Utilize unpublished documents to build up a picture of Stalin with all his qualities and faults, crimes & achievements.
• Examine the change from revolutionism to nationalism which took place in the Soviet Union during the 1930s.
• Explore the way in which Stalin has been portrayed by Soviet, emigré Russian, and European writers including Orwell, Nabokov, Mandelstam, Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn