Stalin: History in an Hour

Name: Stalin: History in an Hour
Brand: Harper UK
Availability: InStock
Author: Rupert Colley
ISBN: 9780007515608

Author: Rupert Colley

Narrator: Jonathan Keeble

Unabridged: 1 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: William Collins

Published: 01/03/2013

Categories: Nonfiction, History, Russian History, Biography & Autobiography, Political Biography, Historical Biography, Modern History

Synopsis

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. Arguably no person in history had such a direct and negative impact on the lives of so many as Joseph Stalin. Under the Red Tsar terror knew no limits, it did not discriminate; no one was safe, no institution, no single town or village was immune. Yet, following his death in 1953, Stalin was deeply mourned. He had ‘received the country with a wooden plough, and left it with a nuclear missile shield’. And no-one else, some claimed, could have led the Soviet Union to victory in the Second World War. So who was Joseph Stalin, what was his role during the Russian Revolution; how did he come to power, what made him such a destructive tyrant, and how did he impose his will on the Soviet Union for so long? Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour…

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dr. Appu on November 08, 2022

"In the Soviet Union, it takes more courage to retreat than advance." ― Joseph Stalin This is a short but informative book on the life of Joseph Stalin. The only negative of this book is that we feel like it ended abruptly. But as the name suggests, the author also meant this book to be a conci......more

Goodreads review by Lu on April 30, 2015

Simple overview Touches on historical highlights and personality......more

Goodreads review by Lukasz on August 07, 2019

Kolejną pozycją z serii „History in an hour” po którą siegnąłem to biografia Stalina. Część informacji o jego życiu była już mi znana. Nuestety ten jeden człowiek wyrządził sporo krzywdy no i odpowiedzialny jest za śrmieć milionów ludzi. Z drugiej strony jest on produktem systemu który został stworz......more

Goodreads review by Roger on April 20, 2020

Great Summary of Stalin It's pretty much a Cliff Notes version of the life of Stalin. It's good for giving you an idea of who he was and the major events in his life. It's obviously not an in depth study but gives a good general overview of Stalin.......more

Goodreads review by Zais on May 20, 2019

Too broad of a subject for that short book.......more

Quotes

‘If the past is a foreign country, History in an Hour is like a high-class tour operator, offering delightfully enjoyable short breaks in the rich and diverse continent of our shared past’ Dominic Sandbrook ‘The practice of History is ever-evolving, and the History In An Hour idea brings it back up to date for the digital age’ Andrew Roberts, Bookseller ‘This is genius’ MacWorld.com