i love reading marudhan's writing after reading the Idi Ameen book. His narration is simple flow, interesting to read. Gives insight about "left thought"perspective about the leaders he wrote. In this book, he takes us along with stalin's life time. definitely it will be interesting narration and gives a high level picture ( a starting point , if you want to read all other personalities like, Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin daughter, Stalin role in second world war ending, handling hitler and imperialistic countries at the same time, Russian civil involvement in second world war...