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Gary Saul Morson on “Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His Books” by Geoffrey Roberts.
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Gary Saul Morson on “Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His Books” by Geoffrey Roberts.
Natylie Baldwin interviews Soviet and Russian specialist Geoffrey Roberts on Putin's decision to invade Ukraine, Europe's role, Stalin and World War II. By Natylie Baldwin Special to Consortium News Geoffrey Roberts is an historian, biographer and political commentator. A renowned speci
In his In Depth interview on C-SPAN yesterday, Steve cited Leo Strauss's Natural Right and History as one of the books he most wanted to recommend to viewers. Watch the interview here to pick up the rest of his recommendations. Seeing the image of Strauss's book on the screen reminded me of my own list. I thought it might make sense to reiterate it today at the beginning of another
<p>Researchers who access Stalin's books will find the dictator's library a source of insight into his political thinking and engagement with ideas (and his pithy marginalia), but not a Rosetta Stone for understanding his capacity for atrocity. </p>
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