Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His Books

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1. Stalin working in his Kremlin office, 1938.

2. Shushanika Manuchar’yants, 1960s.

3. Nadezhda Alliluyeva, 1917.

4. Stalin with his two youngest children, Vasily and Svetlana, 1935.

5. Stalin’s handwritten library classification scheme, May 1925. Stalin Digital Archive, Yale University Press.

6. Title page of Nikolai Bukharin’s Revolutsionnyi Teoretik. Stalin Digital Archive, Yale University Press.

7. Page from Lenin’s One Step Forward, Two Steps Back. Stalin Digital Archive, Yale University Press.

8. Page from Karl Kautsky’s Terrorism and Communism. Stalin Digital Archive, Yale University Press.

9. Front cover of Lenin, Conspirationalism, and October. Stalin Digital Archive, Yale University Press.

10. Front cover of Andrei Shestakov’s Short Course History of the USSR. RGASPI.

11. Stalin’s doodles on the back cover of Alexei Tolstoy’s Ivan Grozny. RGASPI.

12. Page from an article on contemporary military art. Stalin Digital Archive, Yale University Press.

13. Pages from a draft of the Short Course History of the CPSU. Stalin Digital Archive, Yale University Press.

14. Page from a report on the discussion of the Political Economy textbook. Stalin Digital Archive, Yale University Press.