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Title: believable biography but unbelievable author
Review: This novel simulates an autobiography of Stalin, over all centered in his obsessive fight against Trotsky, whose murder he's planning during almost all the chapters because he believed Trotsky was the only one that could snatch him the Soviet power. The book seems to me very credible although I don't know so many details about the real, historic Stalin, but as it were I think is good, although it has a trap, and that is the author can't pretend and I think he doesn't, that a cruel dictator and a criminal as Stalin, although very intelligent, could have the sensibility and writing abilities to make an autobiography as this. Perhaps truly Stalin could attain to understand all these that happens in this novel including external facts and internal thoughts, but to expose all these in an intelligible, attractive book, ever for his private use only, is another very different thing.
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