Robert Service discusses Josef Stalin, from his humble origins as a would-be priest in a province of the Russian empire to his rise to the paranoid, murderous tyrant of the Soviet Union
Josef Stalin is a titan of modern history – and one of its most infamous leaders, responsible for the deaths of millions. Danny Bird spoke to Robert Service to chart the Soviet tyrant’s life, from his childhood in Georgia to his rise to become the dictator of the Soviet Union and an architect of the post-war world.