This is a CBSI in the world. I'm John Bachelor. Jeffrey Roberts, professor at University College

Cork, a Maritus professor of history, member of the Royal Irish Academy.

His new book is Stalin's library, a dictator in his books.

Stalin was a big reader, a capacious reader, and a reader who had opinions who obliged his lieutenants and admirers

to shape their opinions to his. He also did it with his

pencil, his editing pencil, crossing out whole pages, for example in a

biography about Stalin, he wanted less, is more. He was shy about his own history, puzzle, but in any

event he had other opinions about a short history of the Soviet Union, history, how it should be presented to children,

how all these stories should be told. You wonder where did he get the time?

So does everybody when they come across this man.

And Jeffrey has reproduced. So does everybody when they come across this man.

And Jeffrey has reproduced in his book pages

that show Stalin's crossouts and the language is in Russian.

But you can understand he's getting rid of whole pages.

Some things he keeps are puzzling.

So you can think to yourself, was this a thoughtful excise?

Was this a thoughtful inclusion? We come now to America, where Stalin is writing not a book, but he's commenting on America and his reading of America.

And I read this in comparison to America, Stalin believes that the

Soviet Union has a good democracy. He writes, here elections are held in the atmosphere

of collaboration between the workers, the peasants, and

the intelligentsia in an atmosphere of mutual friendship because there are no capitalists

in our country, no

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