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Bedny was cut from stalin s circle but remained free, dying in 1945. These two books raise the curtain on stalin s inner sanctum, describing in stunning detail how stalin and those around him thought, talked, played, betrayed, bowed, and scraped. Because i want to retain my faith in human nature, i would like to believe that stalin and his. It primarily deals with the soviet dictator joseph stalin s life and that of those around him from the late 1920s through to his death in 1953, through the period of collectivization, the moscow show trials, the purges, world war ii and the beginning of the cold war. Simon sebag montefiore is the author of the global bestsellers the romanovs and jerusalem.
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