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CBS I in the world. I'm John Bachelor with Professor Jeffrey Roberts of the University of College Cork,

also a Meredith's professor of History at the College, at the University, and a member

of the Royal Irish Academy, we're discussing his new book, Stalin's Library, which is part archaeological discovery of these books written in or

doodled 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 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 becomes 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

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