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Introduction: The Kremlin Scholar

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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS vii
  3. List of Plates viii
  4. Introduction: The Kremlin Scholar 1
  5. 1. Bloody Tyrant and Bookworm 6
  6. 2. The Search for the Stalin Biographers’ Stone 18
  7. 3. Reading, Writing and Revolution 36
  8. 4. The Life and Fate of a Dictator’s Library 66
  9. 5. Bah Humbug! Stalin’s Pometki 97
  10. 6. Reverse Engineering: Stalin and Soviet Literature 171
  11. 7. Editor-in-Chief of the USSR 190
  12. Conclusion: The Dictator Who Loved Books 210
  13. Notes 213
  14. Further Reading 244
  15. Acknowledgements 246
  16. Index 249
Stalin's Library
This chapter is in the book Stalin's Library
https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300265590-002

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS vii
  3. List of Plates viii
  4. Introduction: The Kremlin Scholar 1
  5. 1. Bloody Tyrant and Bookworm 6
  6. 2. The Search for the Stalin Biographers’ Stone 18
  7. 3. Reading, Writing and Revolution 36
  8. 4. The Life and Fate of a Dictator’s Library 66
  9. 5. Bah Humbug! Stalin’s Pometki 97
  10. 6. Reverse Engineering: Stalin and Soviet Literature 171
  11. 7. Editor-in-Chief of the USSR 190
  12. Conclusion: The Dictator Who Loved Books 210
  13. Notes 213
  14. Further Reading 244
  15. Acknowledgements 246
  16. Index 249
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