I suppose a slight confession is in order before I begin. This is a book that I had hoped to write, but for a variety of reasons it never transpired. To me, it seemed to be a glaring omission in the literature on Stalin. Bookshops were awash with biographies of Stalin. Appraisals of the StalinistContinue reading “The Political Thought of Joseph Stalin: a Study in Twentieth-Century Revolutionary Patriotism”