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    STUDIA HISTORIA - Issue no. 1 / 2022  
         
  Article:   BOOK REVIEWS: GEOFFREY ROBERTS, STALIN’S LIBRARY. A DICTATOR AND HIS BOOKS, YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, NEW HAVEN, 2022, 260 P..

Authors:  TUDOR MUREŞAN.
 
       
         
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Published Online: 15.09.2022
pp. 216-219

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Abstract: Stalin’s interest in reading books, the respect and care he offered them can be remarked in one event from the ruler’s family life. When his two sons were studying from an old History textbook and the wind blew some of the fragile pages away, their father was supposed to have told them to go and get them back. Later he also supposedly taught them how to repair the volume, fixing its book spine. Eventually, after the book was whole again, Stalin told them: ‘You did good. Now you know how to treat books’.
 
         
     
         
         
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