Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
The book continues to fascinate me in a chilling way. Here is an excerpt of comments made by other people about two figures who were greatly involved in the mass murders in the Soviet Union during 1937-8.
“Those who knew these mass murderers later reflected that Malenkov or Krushchev were ‘not wicked by nature’, not ‘what they eventually became. They were men of their time.”