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Stalin remains one of the greatest enigmas of modern history, he represents to many a very paradigm of evil. This is a study of the new material unleashed with the opening of the secret Soviet archives, providing a radically fresh insight into Stalin's life and career.

Two prominent Soviet dissidents portray Khrushchev in power as a shrewd, complex, decisive, and impetuous innovator, impatient to remedy defects in the Soviet system but carried away by initial successes.

Zhores Medvedev, a Soviet biochemist and outspoken critic of the Soviet bureaucracy, who was railroaded into a mental hospital, and his brother, historian Roy Medvedev, who rallied the Soviet scientific and intellectual community in protest, together tell the story of "repression by psychiatry" in Russia today.