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)

During the peak years of the Cold War, when the inscrutability of the Kremlin's agenda left many Western observers fearing imminent nuclear war, Americans could only speculate about what Soviet leaders might be thinking and planning. What were the Soviet's true intentions? Did they have a comprehensive strategy in their confrontation with the West? Was there a Communist bluepri...(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)

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)

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.