This is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Batchler.

Professor Jeffrey Roberts of University College Corp, a Meredith Professor of History.

Member of the Royal Irish Academy is here to introduce us to the Themes in Stalin's Library,

the Professor's new book, Stalin's Library, a dictator in his books.

We're now in the Dachia outside of Moscow.

It's entitled Nearby, Blisznyaya, and the collection, sometimes numbered as much as 25,000.

Disappears after Stalin is condemned by Nikita Kurschev in 1956.

It disappears, it's scattered everywhere.

Some parts of it have exly-braised stamps that you can say this was a member of Stalin's Library.

Some don't have any markings at all, in fact, where Barrow'd never return.

Some are the books of his children's, for example, his daughter's fetlana.

Sometimes they're borrowed books that were marked up by someone else,

and the professors done the detective work of what is Stalin's Pometke, Marginale, and Markings,

and what is somebody else's, and what can we make conclusions?

The important theme I come to, Professor, no smoking gun, so let's enjoy ourselves.

No smoking gun, we're not looking for a magical theory to be vindicated by Stalin's own handwriting.

We're just accumulating evidence.

The first time we know about this library is Yuri Sharapov's 1988 memoir.

This is the hint. Since then, people have been looking in all directions.

You tell me that the archivists in Moscow keep most of it.

So are the books still being discovered scattered around the Soviet Union, Professor?

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