New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies

New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies


Jan Plamper, “The Stalin Cult: A Study in the Alchemy of Power”

March 22, 2012

Jan Plamper begins in his book, The Stalin Cult: A Study in the Alchemy of Power (Yale University Press, 2012), with two illuminating anecdotes that demonstrate the power and scope of Stalin’s personality cult. The first comes from Sergei Kavtaradze, an