Stalin: A Biography

^{28. The Plutocratic-Bolshevik Wedding’: Nazi cartoon in Preussische Zeitung, 16 July 1941. A Hasidic Jew unites Stalin and Churchill in marriage. Molotov and Halifax stand behind them.}

^{29. Stalin’s work desk in the carriage.}

^{30. Stalin’s rail carriage FD 3878.}

^{31. Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill at the Yalta Conference in February 1945.}

^{32. Generalissimus Stalin in 1945. The image disguises the haggard reality of his appearance.}

^{33. Post-war poster: Stalin shakes hands with a military officer. The caption runs: ‘Work so as to be thanked by comrade Stalin!’}

^{34. Post-war poster with children gazing adoringly at Stalin and saying: ‘Thank you, our dear Stalin, for our happy childhood!’}

^{35. Stalin’s Kholodnaya Rechka dacha, viewed from the garden.}

^{36. The cinema gallery at the Kholodnaya Rechka dacha.}

^{37. The Italian-made billiard table at the Kholodnaya Rechka dacha.}

^{38. Lavrenti Beria.}

^{39. Georgi Malenkov.}

^{40. Stalin’s desk in the Kremlin. It is now kept in the Stalin Museum in Gori.}

^{41. View across Lake Ritsa towards the mountains of the Caucasus. Stalin’s dacha lies in the middle on the distant shore.}

42. Poster: ‘Under the Leadership of the Great Stalin. Forward to Communism!’

^{43. Daily Worker (London) cartoon on the death of Stalin, 6 March 1953. Hardly an image of great technical accomplishment.}

^{44. Mourners queue to pay their last respects to Stalin in the Hall of Columns at the House of Unions.}

^{45. Stalin’s death mask.}

^{46. Shrine to Stalin built over and around one of his childhood homes in Gori.}

^{47. Stalin’s statue, still standing in the centre of Gori.}

About the Author

ROBERT SERVICE is the author of the highly acclaimed Lenin: A Biography (which won the US ForeWord magazine’s History Book of the Year Award in 2000), A History of Twentieth-Century Russia and Russia: Experiment with a People as well as many other books on Russia’s past and present. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and works at St Antony’s College, Oxford. He is married with four children.

Also by Robert Service

The Bolshevik Party in Revolution: A Study in Organisational Change

Lenin: A Political Life

Volume One: The Strengths of Contradiction

Volume Two: Worlds in Collision

Volume Three: The Iron Ring

The Russian Revolution, 1900–1927

A History of Twentieth-Century Russia

Lenin: A Biography

Russia: Experiment with a People

Comrades: Communism: A World History (publishing 2007)

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Picture credits

Adele Biagi: 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 29, 30, 35, 36, 37, 40, 41, 45, 46, 47. Corbis: 18, 19, 38, 39, 44. David King Collection: 9, 10, 11, 15. Hoover Institution Archives, RU/SU2237, Poster Collection: 42. Hulton Getty: 2, 7, 17, 31. Popperfoto: 20.

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