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The most authoritative and engrossing biography of the notorious dictator ever written Josef Stalin exercised supreme power in the Soviet Union from 1929 until his death in 1953. During that quarter-century, by Oleg Khlevniuk's estimate, he caused the imprisonment and execution of no fewer than a million Soviet citizens per year. Millions more were victims of famine directly resulting from Stalin's policies. What drove him toward such ruthlessness? This essential biography, by the author most deeply familiar with the vast archives of the Soviet era, offers an unprecedented, fine-grained portrait of Stalin the man and dictator. Without mythologizing Stalin as either benevolent or an evil genius, Khlevniuk resolves numerous controversies about specific events in the dictator's life while assembling many hundreds of previously unknown letters, memos, reports, and diaries into a comprehensive, compelling narrative of a life that altered the course of world history.

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In brief, revealing prologues to each chapter, Khlevniuk takes his reader into Stalin's favorite dacha, where the innermost circle of Soviet leadership gathered as their vozhd lay dying. Chronological chapters then illuminate major themes: Stalin's childhood, his involvement in the Revolution and the early Bolshevik government under Lenin, his assumption of undivided power and mandate for industrialization and collectivization, the Terror, World War II, and the postwar period. At the book's conclusion, the author presents a cogent warning against nostalgia for the Stalinist era. '[A] beautifully constructed, lucid, and brief new life of the dictator.. Written with fluent sobriety and humour the book is a constant pleasure to read. No book of history is ever definitive: new facts trickle out, new writers bring new perspectives to bear. This is the charm of the genre.

But some history books can become classics for layer generations. Khlevniuk's Stalin is likely to be one of them.' -Rodric Braithwaite, Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies 'Authoritative, fluently written.. The pinnacle of current scholarship on its subject.'

-Charlotte Hobson, Spectator 'This brilliant, authoritative, opinionated biography ranks as the best on Stalin in any language. Khlevniuk's research is prodigious and covers a plethora of primary and secondary sources.' -Martin McCauley, East-West Review 'A historiographical and literary masterpiece, which undoubtedly will remain the standard biography of Stalin for decades to come.' -Mark Edele, Australian Book Review Won the 2016 PROSE Award in Biography & Autobiography. The Prose Awards recognize the very best in professional and scholarly publishing.