| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3

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Book Review

Stalin i soiuzniki, 1941–1945 ss. (Stalin and allies, 1941–1945). By Robert Ivanov. (Smolensk: Rusich, 2000. 589 pp. ISBN 5-8138-0147-2.) In Russian.

Historians, like children, are fascinated by monsters. Josef V. Stalin (1879–1953), who tyrannized the Soviet Union for nearly thirty years, is on nearly everybody's short list of twentieth-century political monsters. He bequeathed a legacy that eventually led to the collapse of the paranoid and repressive regime he had created in his own image, a regime that proved impossible to reform. Robert Ivanov, a Russian historian who was in his teens during the Great Patriotic War (World War II), sets out to redeem the reputation of Stalin as wartime leader from the image put forward by Western and post-Soviet Russian historians who, he says, have blackened the great man's reputation. This book, which hovers somewhere between academic treatise and popular history, is streaked with nostalgia for an era that is past and a country that is no more. Given the parlous state of post-Soviet Russia, it is understandable that Ivanov seeks whatever solace he can find in history.

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