So long as he loved his mum
http://www.economist.com/books/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3D3535674
Jan 6th 2005
From The Economist print edition
Attempting to put a human face on him
IN HIS still unequalled 1991 biography, "Stalin: Breaker of
Nations", Robert Conquest found that there was "something in
[Stalin's] character best thought of as an absence of life in its
fullest sense." He called the Soviet dictator a "vast, dark figure
looming over the century", defined mainly by a capacity for murder
and deceit. A biographer often became attached to a subject, Mr
Conquest said, but with Stalin it was "probably impossible to have
that sort of sympathetic relationship".
Stalin: A Biography
By Robert Service
Macmillan; 528 pages; =A325. To be published in America by Belknap Press
in March
Stalin
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