Publisher's Synopsis
Stalin died in 1953, yet his gigantic shadow still dominates the USSR, where Stalinism came to stand for the system of mass terror which accounted for more than 30 million lives. The authors of this biography have travelled to the homes of survivors of Stalin's time, and here his family, his bodyguards and admirers mingle with the disillusioned, the critical and the victims, witnesses and survivors of an implacable regime.
