Stalin: Breaker of Nations Audiobook

Quotes

• “A superb portrait of the man who terrorized his country for thirty years and inflicted the Cold War on the rest of the world…Makes for fascinating reading.”

  — New York Times Book Review

• “Thoughtful and thorough and shot through with insight.”

  — Washington Post Book World

• “Brilliant…This book probably is the most cogent and readable account of Stalin’s life yet published.”

  — San Diego Union

• “Definitive…a magnificent, even poetic, act of historical retribution.”

  — New Leader

• “Chilling…This masterful biography provides fresh insight into a progressively paranoid leader who ruled by terror and falsification.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “Incorporates new details of Stalin’s life and establishes a broad context for understanding his actions…Carefully researched and well written…Conquest’s work excels in its sophisticated portrayal of Stalin’s life against the map of world politics and society.”

  — Library Journal

• “Written in a fast-moving informative style, this absorbing biography charts Stalin’s rise from obscure revolutionary flunky to power-mad dictator…A compelling portrait for students and teachers of modern Russian and European history alike.”

  — School Library Journal

• “Blending impeccable scholarship and deeply revealing anecdotes, noted Soviet scholar Conquest illuminates Stalin’s role in history as well as his private character…A must for anyone interested in the dictator.”

  — Kirkus Reviews