This is a

this is CBS I and the world. I'm John Batchewick Professor Jeffrey Roberts, University College

Cork, a emeritus professor of history and the author of Stalin's Library, a dictator in his books.

We meet large figures in Stalin's Library and the first to come across because it seems so logical given the time between the 19th

and the 20th century that Stalin rose to power.

Bismarck, the challenge of dealing with Bismarck. The challenge of dealing with Bismarck, Bismarck and Machiavelli, is that you don't know whether

Stalin thought he was Bismarck, learned from Bismarck, learned what not to do from Bismar.

Professor, you've looked at this very carefully now.

What did Stalin think of Bismarck?

Did he divide his life between early and late? Was he attracted to the

Iron Chancellor? Was he attracted to the reformer? What about Bismar?

It's very difficult to know what Stalin thought about Bismar in detail because the Bismar books

that Stalin read and in some cases,ks, they disappeared from the archive.

We don't know, we don't know, we don't know where you are.

What we can say with certainty is the style was very interested in Bismarck. He was very

consistent that Bismarck's memoirs should be translated to Russia in fact there should be a new edition of Bismarck's memoirs should be translated to Russia. In fact, there should be a new edition of Bismuth members.

He was interested in other books about Bismar and about treatments of Bismar.

And he was very keen to actually discuss a Bismarck's Ben was and Bismarck.

So he knows that he had a huge kind of interest in business.

And my self is actually is that, yeah, okay,

he's all, he's all, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's,

bismarck as a kind of like practical, politician but someone who had also had a

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