“This book of new essays is dedicated to Geoffrey Roberts, a notable Soviet specialist…Most of the contributors acknowledge their debt to Roberts, illuminating the importance of Roberts’s work in influencing their own research and the book is a fine tribute to his career and influence..This new collection has as its objective a revisioning of both Stalin as leader and of Stalinism as a political force…This collection adds much to the historical scholarship surrounding Stalin his era and his politics and also contains a good supply of material that will be used to stimulate debate and inspire further research.”
Craig Gerrard, History: The Journal of the Historical Association
