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Star cast of distinguished contributors, including Dmitri Volkogonov, John Erickson, Catherine Andreyev, David Glantz and Oleg Rzheshevsky A crucial portrait of a defining period in world history

About the Author

Harold Shukman is an Emeritus Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, where he was for a number of years Director of the Russian and East European Centre and University Lecturer in Modern Russian History. He edited and translated Dmitri Volkogonov's Stalin: Triumph and Tragedy (1991), Trotsky: The Eternal Revolutionary (1996), and The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire (1998).