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Khlevnyuk O. V. Stalin. The Life of a Leader: A Biography. Moscow: AST Publishing House: CORPUS, 2024. 464 p.: Book review

Alexander Evgenievich Smirnitsky
Nizhny Novgorod Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia
Submitted: February 18, 2026
Abstract. The work is devoted to the study of the personality of I. V. Stalin. The author examines the activities of the long-term leader of the Soviet state from the perspective of the “totalitarian school” of historians. From this work, the reader can gain a comprehensive understanding of the assessments of I. V. Stalin in the liberal historiography of the 1990s. The author has used a wide range of sources and literature in writing this work.
Key words and phrases:
личность И. В. Сталина
историки «тоталитарной школы»
либеральная историография
Вторая мировая война
personality of I. V. Stalin
historians of the “totalitarian school”
liberal historiography
World War II
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