Stalin's Library Buddhist life & practice Designed to provide the stimulus

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Stalin's Library Buddhist life & practice Designed to provide the stimulusA compelling intellectual biography of Stalin told through his personal library In this engaging life of the twentieth centurys most self consciously learned dictator, Geoffrey Roberts explores the books Stalin read, how he read them, and what they taught him. Stalin firmly believed in the transformative potential of words and his voracious appetite for reading guided him throughout his years. A biography as well as an intellectual portrait, this book