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    Stalin: History in an Hour
    Stalin: History in an Hour
    Stalin: History in an Hour
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    Stalin: History in an Hour

    Written by David B. McCoy

    Narrated by Jonathan Keeble

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    About this audiobook

    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…

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers
    Release dateJan 3, 2013
    ISBN9780007515608
    Stalin: History in an Hour
    Author

    David B. McCoy

    Rupert Colley was a librarian in Enfield for 22 years until September 2011. A history graduate, he launched the original History In An Hour in 2009 with a website, blog and ‘World War Two In An Hour’ as an iPhone app. He then expanded it to Kindle, iBooks and into the USA with a series of titles, and enlisted new writers by encouraging guest bloggers on the website. History In An Hour was acquired by HarperCollins in 2011.

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    • 5/5
      An Excellent summary of Stalin life,the dictator that ruled the Soviet union with an iron fist, and caused the death of hundred millions of people,his biography is some thing very horrible,scary and makes you sad.
    • 4/5
      I first decided to read about Joseph Stalin when I finished "The Animal Farm". Till then; I had no idea of who Stalin really was. Now; after listening to this book; I have got a fair idea of the person who manipulated the Bolshevik party and became the Leader of Soviet Union. He would unleash a calculated reign of terror while maintaining an image of the people's saviour. Joseph Stalin was indiscriminately cruel and didn't even spare his own family members. Though he did brought Soviet Union to a glorious future but at the cost of 2 million murders and social liberties.
      Even though he was an unstoppable dictator; he is still admired by millions across the globe.
      He was born in 1878 and died at the age 74 in 1953
    • 5/5
      I really enjoyed learning about Stalin! Very informative and the narrator has a nice voice.
    • 3/5
      Once playback ends its almost impossible to figure out how to play the audio again.
    • 5/5
      Great Performance! Great historical information. I would recommend this recording to someone else!
    • 5/5
      A chilling account of Stalin‘s rise to power, his brutal reign of terror and his rather ordinary death. Students in the 21st-century would do well to verse themselves in this historical account of one mad man’s aspirations for power and acquiring complete control over everyone but himself. It exposes the inherent flaws of socialism/communism as it exhaust the state at the expense of the individual. It should be required reading for college students.
    • 5/5
      Fantastic short history of Stalin! Yikes!! What a man. Definitely worth reading if you don’t know much about him