Stalin's Library
A Dictator and his Books

DNF @ 30% (the annex starts at 78%). This book hardly deals with Stalin's library; mostly, it's a shaky biography / history book, interspersed with mentions that Stalin was a voracious reader who accumulated a large library. I expected this to be an investigation into the question how specific texts......more

Stalin a citit mult. A avut și-o bibliotecă pe măsură. Se estimează că, la momentul morții, biblioteca lui Stalin cuprindea peste 25 000 de volume. Circa jumătate erau cărți de literatură rusă și universală. La categoria non-ficțiune predominau cărțile de filosofie marxistă și istorie. În mod curios......more

The Old Bolsheviks and their contemporaries in other revolutionary groups before the October Revolution all felt the need to have credibility as intellectuals and theoreticians, and though Stalin was a notoriously practical man who wouldn't let a little thing like a few million lives stand in the wa......more

تا ۶ روز آینده به کامپیوتر دسترسی ندارم و نمی‌تونم ریویویی برای کتاب بنویسم......more

A voracious reader, Josef Stalin had his own library of some 25,000 books, for which he employed the services of a librarian. He developed his own classification system and ex-libris stamp, and was fond of annotating and marking the books he read. He was a great respecter of books, if not of the peo......more