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。

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。

Sean McMeekin is Professor of History at Bard College, New York. For some years he taught at Bilkent University, Ankara. His books include the highly successful The Berlin-Baghdad Express (Penguin), The Russian Origins of the First World War and The Ottoman Endgame (Penguin).

A prize-winning historian reveals how Stalin--not Hitler--was the animating force of World War II in this major new history. World War II endures in the popular imagination as a heroic struggle between good and evil, with villainous Hitler driving its events. But Hitler was not in power when the conflict erupted in Asia--and he was certainly dead before it ended. His armies did...(展开全部)

In this remarkable, ground-breaking new book Sean McMeekin marks a generational shift in our view of Stalin as an ally in the Second World War. Stalin's only difference from Hitler, he argues, was that he was a successful murderous predator. With Hitler dead and the Third Reich in ruins, Stalin created an immense new Communist empire. Among his holdings were Czechoslovakia and ...(展开全部)

This breakthrough book provides a detailed reconstruction of Stalin's leadership from the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 to his death in 1953. Making use of a wealth of new material from Russian archives, Geoffrey Roberts challenges a long list of standard perceptions of Stalin: his qualities as a leader; his relationships with his own generals and with other great wo...(展开全部)

This breakthrough book provides a detailed reconstruction of Stalin's leadership from the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 to his death in 1953. Making use of a wealth of new material from Russian archives, Geoffrey Roberts challenges a long list of standard perceptions of Stalin: his qualities as a leader; his relationships with his own generals and with other great wo...(展开全部)

This breakthrough book provides a detailed reconstruction of Stalin's leadership from the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 to his death in 1953. Making use of a wealth of new material from Russian archives, Geoffrey Roberts challenges a long list of standard perceptions of Stalin: his qualities as a leader; his relationships with his own generals and with other great wo...(展开全部)

This breakthrough book provides a detailed reconstruction of Stalin's leadership from the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 to his death in 1953. Making use of a wealth of new material from Russian archives, Geoffrey Roberts challenges a long list of standard perceptions of Stalin: his qualities as a leader; his relationships with his own generals and with other great wo...(展开全部)