The cult of Stalin the intellectual
A valuable study of the dictator’s reading habits is absurdly revisionist about his capacity for cruelty.
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John Gray is an author and contributing writer to the New Statesman.
A valuable study of the dictator’s reading habits is absurdly revisionist about his capacity for cruelty.
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By John Gray