This is a

This is CBSi in the world. I'm John Bachelor with Professor Jeffrey Robertson of the University of College

Cork, also a Meredith professor of history at the college at the university and a member of the

Royal Irish Academy were discussing his new book, Stalin's library, which is part archaeological

discovery of these books written in or

or duddled in or crossed out with Stalin's direction, his pencil, his ever prominent pencil. The library is scattered.

There are many questions about where the books are, what he collected, what he didn't

collect, what's missing. We're right now in post-revolution

Glennon died of a series of strokes and he's gone in 1924 and Stalin who sees

himself as the inheritor is not exactly

profoundly challenged because he was good as general secretary,

but he begins his consolidation.

He has an opponent whose name is Leon Trotsky. All of these

players are vivid 20th century personalities. We're following the library and the

professor takes us to 1925. the

woman who was Lenin's librarian now become Stalin's librarian and

professor this is a marvelous list of what Stalin wanted his library to look like.

Is there an organizing principle here why he detailed these subjects and then singled out

these certain authors to be separate from the other

subjects.

How did he explain it to the library?

Yeah, well, as we were discussing earlier, Stalin was a great admirer of Lenin,

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