From a Georgian seminary student to the ruthless leader of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin reshaped the 20th century. This biography traces his rise through the Bolshevik Revolution, his brutal ...

In the last 200 years the idea of will has gone from the most admired philosophical concept to the most maligned. Pulling yourself up by the bootstraps seemed the only way to go for Beethoven. Now we ...

Having gained access to secret documents in Russia’s archives, biographer Edvard Radzinsky wrote a comprehensive biography about Joseph Stalin (1878-1953) who, after dismantling the tsarist regime, ...