Stalin's Secret War

by Nikolai Tolstoy

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0030472660
• ISBN13: 9780030472664
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Holt McDougal
• Length: 463 Pages
• Weight: 1.78 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Stalin's had paranoia, but he was prudent

I read this good book, translated to the portuguese, here in Brazil. This book is divided into two main parts. The first part of it is smaller, with just about 80 pages and goes until about the year 1938; it has four chapters. The second part is bigger, with about 275 pages and thirtheen chapters. There's an epilogue with about fourteen pages. Notes are almost one hundred pages and is bigger, than the first four chapters united. Some advantages of this book: 1-This book tells that Stalin just followed the Lenin's way. 2-Leon Trotsky is remembered in this book, in about ten times. In all times, Trostky is showed as even worse than Stalin. 3-The author describes the slavery labor, in former Soviet Union. Kolyma gold fields and other slavery camps are described. 4-This book remembers the opposition to Communism and Nationalism in former Soviet Union. 5-This book remembers the slave's revolts in Stalin's times. 6-The so called Betrayal of the Cossacks, also known as the Tragedy of Drau and the Massacre of Cossacks at Lienz, in 1945 by British Army had good space in this good book. 7-Soviet spies in democracies, in 1930 and 1940 decades, are remembered in this good book. 8-The Left's support to Hitler, until the Nazist invasion of former USSR has good space in this book. 9-This book remembers how gays became easily Nazists or Communists. Some few problems of this book: 1-There's few space to Stalin's administration system. Only the Soviet security system has enough space in this book. 2-This book forgets how Freemasons became mesmerized by Communism, Stalin and Soviet system. The massive support to Soviet Union from freemasons, such as Churchill, is remembered, but the word "Freemasonry" hasn't place in this good book. 3-Stalin's actions in Spain and Latin America haven't enough space in this book.

gruesome tales of Stalin's barbarity and paranoia

Author is descended from Leo Tolstoy (of War And Peace fame). Contains shocking accounts of Stalin's brutality and extreme paranoia. Published in 1981 (by Holt, Rinehart, Winston), now out of print. Recently released Soviet archives prove the truth was even more shocking than detailed in this book.