作者巴让诺夫，1900年生于乌克兰，1919年加入联共（布）党，之后就读于莫斯科高等技术学校，很快就到党中央组织部等机关工作。继之调到党中央政治局工作，在1923年至1927年间，担任斯大林的助理兼政治局秘书腰肢。最后，于1928年潜逃国外，亡命西方。 在流亡国外期间，作者先后曾发表过一些有关斯大林和联共（布）党内斗争的文章和书，引起西方舆论的重视。《斯大林秘书回忆录》一书是他的代表作，1980年出版于法国，旋即在西方国家广为传播，被西方新闻界成为”轰动世界的事件“，视之为”克里姆林宫学“方面”不可多得“的著作之一。

A revelatory account that finally unveils the shadowy journey from obscurity to power of the Georgian cobbler’s son who became the Red Tsar—the man who, along with Hitler, remains the modern personification of evil. What makes a Stalin? What formed this merciless psychopath who was, as well, a consummate politician, the dynamic world statesman who helped create and industriali...(展开全部)

Stalin remains one of the creators of our world - like Hitler, the personification of evil. Yet Stalin hid his past and remains mysterious. This enthralling biography that reads like a thriller finally unveils the secret but extraordinary journey of the Georgian cobbler's son who became the Red Tsar. What forms such a merciless psychopath and consummate politician? Was he illeg...(展开全部)

Based on ten years' astonishing new research, here is the thrilling story of how a charismatic, dangerous boy became a student priest, romantic poet, gangster mastermind, prolific lover, murderous revolutionary, and the merciless politician who shaped the Soviet Empire in his own brutal image: How Stalin became Stalin.

The novel Good Stalin is inspired by Erofeev's experience growing up amidst the Soviet political hierarchy. His father, a staunch Stalinist who has dedicated his life and soul to the party, begins as Stalin's personal interpreter, and rises rapidly to the top of the political ladder and into the leader's inner circle. The book reflects the family's prestigious - and yet precari...(展开全部)

维克多·弗拉基米罗维奇·叶罗菲耶夫（Виктор Владимирович Ерофеев, Viktor Vladimirovich Yerofeyev，1947.9.19~ ）苏联、俄罗斯作家、文学评论家、广播和电视节目主持人。 生于莫斯科一个外交官家庭。1955~1959年父亲在苏联大使馆担任参赞期间与父母住在巴黎。1970年莫斯科大学语言文学系毕业，1973年在苏联科学院世界文学研究所攻读研究生，1975年获语言文学副博士学位，论文题目是《陀思妥耶夫斯基和法国的存在主义》。1973年在苏联《文学问题》杂志上发表随笔评论法国作家萨德侯爵的创作，在文坛上崭露头角。1979年因参与未经审查的“文学年鉴”《大都会》而被开除出苏联作家协会。2022年俄罗斯入侵乌克兰后和家人逃离俄罗斯赴德国定居。 作品有《亚德雷娜·芬亚》[Ядрёна Феня，收入...(展开全部)

维克多·弗拉基米罗维奇·叶罗菲耶夫（Виктор Владимирович Ерофеев, Viktor Vladimirovich Yerofeyev，1947.9.19~ ）苏联、俄罗斯作家、文学评论家、广播和电视节目主持人。 生于莫斯科一个外交官家庭。1955~1959年父亲在苏联大使馆担任参赞期间与父母住在巴黎。1970年莫斯科大学语言文学系毕业，1973年在苏联科学院世界文学研究所攻读研究生，1975年获语言文学副博士学位，论文题目是《陀思妥耶夫斯基和法国的存在主义》。1973年在苏联《文学问题》杂志上发表随笔评论法国作家萨德侯爵的创作，在文坛上崭露头角。1979年因参与未经审查的“文学年鉴”《大都会》而被开除出苏联作家协会。2022年俄罗斯入侵乌克兰后和家人逃离俄罗斯赴德国定居。 作品有《亚德雷娜·芬亚》[Ядрёна Феня，收入...(展开全部)

The novel Good Stalin is inspired by Erofeev's experience growing up amidst the Soviet political hierarchy. His father, a staunch Stalinist who has dedicated his life and soul to the party, begins as Stalin's personal interpreter, and rises rapidly to the top of the political ladder and into the leader's inner circle. The book reflects the family's prestigious - and yet precari...(展开全部)

Stalin remains one of the creators of our world - like Hitler, the personification of evil. Yet Stalin hid his past and remains mysterious. This enthralling biography that reads like a thriller finally unveils the secret but extraordinary journey of the Georgian cobbler's son who became the Red Tsar. What forms such a merciless psychopath and consummate politician? Was he illeg...(展开全部)

There have been many biographies of Stalin, but the court that surrounded him is untravelled ground. Simon Sebag Montefiore, acclaimed biographer of Catherine the Great's lover, prime minister and general Potemkin, has unearthed the vast underpinning that sustained Stalin. Not only ministers such as Molotov or secret service chiefs such as Beria, but men and women whose loyalty...(展开全部)