WHAT ARE PUTIN AND XI READING BESIDE STALIN'S SHORT COURSE? 5/8: Stalin's Library: A Dictator and his Books Hardcover –by Geoffrey Roberts
The John Batchelor Show
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🗓️ 29 January 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Stalin, an avid reader from an early age, amassed a surprisingly diverse personal collection of thousands of books, many of which he marked and annotated revealing his intimate thoughts, feelings, and beliefs. Based on his wide-ranging research in Russian archives, Roberts tells the story of the creation, fragmentation, and resurrection of Stalin’s personal library. As a true believer in communist ideology, Stalin was a fanatical idealist who hated his enemies—the bourgeoisie, kulaks, capitalists, imperialists, reactionaries, counter-revolutionaries, traitors—but detested their ideas even more.
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| 0:50.6 | Stalin's library. |
| 0:52.1 | The professor's new book, Stalin's library, the professor's new book. |
| 0:53.8 | Stalin's library, a dictator in his books. |
| 0:57.3 | We're now in the dachia outside of Moscow. |
| 1:00.9 | It's entitled nearby, Blige Nyaya, and the collection sometimes numbered as much |
| 1:08.6 | as 25,000 disappears after Stalin is condemned by Nikita Khrushchev in 1956. |
| 1:16.0 | It disappears. |
| 1:18.0 | It's scattered everywhere. |
| 1:19.0 | Some parts of it have ex-Libre stamps that you can say this was a member of Stalin's library. |
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