{"id":32494,"date":"2024-01-09T08:53:12","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T07:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=255834"},"modified":"2024-01-09T18:11:36","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T17:11:36","slug":"life-of-the-week-stalin","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/life-of-the-week-stalin\/","title":{"rendered":"Life of the Week: Stalin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robert Service discusses\u00a0Josef\u00a0Stalin, 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 <\/p>

By Danny Bird\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Tuesday, 09 January 2024 at 07:53 AM<\/p>

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Josef\u00a0Stalin is a titan of modern history \u2013 and one of its most infamous leaders, responsible for the deaths of millions. Danny Bird spoke to Robert Service to chart the Soviet tyrant\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n

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