New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies
Jan Plamper, “The Stalin Cult: A Study in the Alchemy of Powerâ€
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