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David Shearer, « Geoffrey ROBERTS, Stalin’s Library. A Dictator and His Books », Cahiers du monde russe, ID : 10.4000/monderusse.13583
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In Stalin’s Library, author Geoffrey Roberts portrays the dictator Joseph Stalin as an intellectual revolutionary. Roberts does not deny or soften Stalin’s brutality or his ruthlessness. Rather he argues that Stalin’s voracious appetite for self-improvement through self-education and reading shaped and only reinforced his self-certainty and willingness to take any measures he felt necessary to achieve his goals. Stalin was a true Marxist in that his goal was not just to understand the world b...