Oleg Khlevniuk
Auteur van Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator
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Oleg V. Khlevniuk is a leading research fellow at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) International Center for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences and senior research fellow at the State Archive of the Russian Federation. His previous Yale toon meer books include The History of the Gulag, Master of the House: Stalin and His Inner Circle, and several collections of Stalin's correspondence. toon minder
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- 1959-07-07
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Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1985)
Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Candidat) (1989)
Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Doctor of Historical Sciences) (1997) - Beroepen
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Moscow State University
Higher School of Economics - National Research University
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Also in the running was Simon Sebag Montefiore's two-volume set which focuses more on Stalin's personal life and suggests viewing him as being more like a mafia don than a standard, if autocratic, political leader. (And having read the present work, I can see where Montefiore is coming from, although my experience with mafia dons is, shall we say, limited.)
Then there this book, Khlevniuk's single-volume bio. Given that I'm unlikely to read two multi-volume Stalin biographies and that Kotkin volume three is only allegedly on the horizon, this seemed like a decent stop-gap. Plus, it has the perk of being by a Russian historian.
Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator didn't disappoint. To my eyes, it's objective, neither castigating (though still assigning blame where the evidence supports it) nor lionizing Stalin. Obviously, if Kotkin is writing three books each of which is longer than this one, then Khlevniuk had to leave a lot out, but I didn't feel like there was anything too jarring missing. He seems to have abridged the dictator's life story judiciously.
I'd definitely recommend this to anyone looking for a bio of Stalin that is recent and written by a respected historian with access to the Soviet archives, but who doesn't want to take on one of the multivolume affairs that otherwise meet those requirements.
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