Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His Books

CONTENTS

List of Plates

Introduction: The Kremlin Scholar

1. Bloody Tyrant and Bookworm

2. The Search for the Stalin Biographers’ Stone

3. Reading, Writing and Revolution

4. The Life and Fate of a Dictator’s Library

5. Bah Humbug! Stalin’s Pometki

6. Reverse Engineering: Stalin and Soviet Literature

7. Editor-in-Chief of the USSR

Conclusion: The Dictator Who Loved Books

Notes

Further Reading

Acknowledgements

Index