Book description
Know your stuff: Read a succinct history of Stalin's life and influence
in just one hour.
Arguably no person in history had such a direct and negative impact on
the lives of so many as Joseph Stalin. Under the Red Tsar terror knew no
limits, it did not discriminate; no one was safe, no institution, no
single town or village was immune. Yet, following his death in 1953,
Stalin was deeply mourned. He had 'received the country with a wooden
plough, and left it with a nuclear missile shield'. And no-one else,
some claimed, could have led the Soviet Union to victory in the Second
World War.
So who was Joseph Stalin, what was his role during the Russian
Revolution; how did he come to power, what made him such a destructive
tyrant, and how did he impose his will on the Soviet Union for so long?
Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour… 'If the past is
a foreign country, History in an Hour is like a high-class tour
operator, offering delightfully enjoyable short breaks in the rich and
diverse continent of our shared past' Dominic Sandbrook
'The practice of History is ever-evolving, and the History In An Hour
idea brings it back up to date for the digital age' Andrew Roberts, Bookseller
'This is genius' MacWorld. com Rupert Colley was a librarian in
Enfield for 22 years until September 2011. A history graduate, he
launched the original History In An Hour in 2009 with a website, blog
and 'World War Two In An Hour' as an iPhone app. He then expanded it to
Kindle, iBooks and into the USA with a series of titles, and enlisted
new writers by encouraging guest bloggers on the website. History In An
Hour was acquired by Scott Pack for HarperPress in 2011.
