The Red Monarch: Scenes Ffrom the Life of Stalin

Krotkov, Yuri; Mairs, Tanya E.; Smith, Carol Houck

ISBN 10: 0393088367 / ISBN 13: 9780393088366

Published by W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated, New York, 1979

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Red Monarch: Scenes Ffrom the Life of Stalin
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated, New York
• Publication Date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393088367
• ISBN 13: 9780393088366
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Russian History

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Synopsis

This series of sketches captures Stalin with irony, humor and pathos. The author calls his fictionalized version of Stalin "artistic documentation" in the spirit of reality based on research, personal experience and conversations with others.

Yuri Krotkov, a Soviet Georgian, as was Stalin, was a prominent dramatist and screenwriter in the Soviet Union before his defection. As a member of the Russian intelligentsia, he was in the confidence of top-ranking Soviet and party officials in Moscow. Following his arrival in the United States, he held teaching positions at George Washington University, Johns Hopkins University and Oberlin College.

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