Joseph Stalin

A BIOGRAPHICAL COMPANION

ABC Clio,1999

Well-researched, informative and accessible as well as being remarkably lacking in the ideologically driven, contentious and indigestible argumentation so characteristic of publications on Soviet history. Rappaport offers informed comment on the personal context...the accessible style means that the reader is spared the thicket of acronyms so characteristic of writing on Soviet themes... An entertaining and well researched commentary.

Gerald McGhie, New Zealand Slavonic Journal