This is a CBSI and the world. I'm John Batchewick Professor Jeffrey Roberts, University College

Cork, a Meredith's 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 that 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 Bismar, 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 fall about Bismar in detail because the Bismar

books that Stalin read and in some cases,

barks, 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 that Stein was very interested in Bismarck. He was very

insistent that Bismarck's memoirs should be translated into Russia.

In fact, it should be a new edition of Bismarck.

He was interested in other books about Ms.

And about treatments of Bisbar.

And he was very keen to actually discuss

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