Stalin: The Career Of A Fanatic

by Essad Bey

English, Pages 435. Reprinted in 2016 with the help of original edition published long back[1932]. This book is in black & white, Hardcover, sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Dust Cover, Printed on high quality Paper, re-sized as per Current standards, professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books, there may be some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set, then it is only single volume. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. (Customisation is possible). Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. Original Stalin The Career Of A Fanatic 1932 [Hardcover], Original Essad Bey

435 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1932

About the author

Lev Nussimbaum (1905 - 1942) was a prolific Jewish writer who reinvented himself as a Muslim under the pseudonyms Essad Bey and Kurban Said. Despite his being an ethnic Jew, his politics were such that, before his origins were discovered, the Nazi propaganda ministry included his works on their list of "excellent books for German minds".

Reviews

[James · Rating 5 out of 5]

I came to read this book via a very interesting route. Previously, I read and enjoyed The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life, by Tom Reiss quite a bit. The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life was about Lev Nussenbaum, a Jewish author from Baku, Azerbeijan. This prolific author had written several books that look interesting, including Stalin: The Career of a Fanatic. I had much trouble obtaining the book. The book was written in 1931 and apparently had not been borrowed much since. The library found it in archives after a week-long search.

The book was well worth the wait. The book was written while Stalin's reign as Soviet dictator was still young. Russia and the rest of the world blew many chances to dispatch this man. Basically, his stock in trade was first brutality and then Communism. He frankly had little idea, even after seven years as unquestioned rule, what Communism was about. To be fair, the book states that he was avidly reading to learn about the subject. This was a doctrine that caused a lot of needless human misery.

I gave the book a well-deserved five-stars.