Mark B. Smith

'Exit Stalin'

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'Superb... Immensely important... This is a tragic story, and Smith tells it magnificently' The Telegraph One of the most anticipated books of 2026 according to Financial Times and New Statesman An extraordinarily atmospheric and powerful history

'Exit Stalin'

Bog | Engelsk

To those of us in the West, the Soviet Union is synonymous with Stalinism. The common view of the USSR is of a brutal regime that squelched dissent and oversaw a drab, terrified society. Yet as Cambridge historian Mark B. Smith demonstrates in Exit Stalin