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Title: A laugh riot!
Review: Although Joseph Stalin is known for his brutishness towards his countrymen and ruthlessness towards his colleagues, this fictional autobiography reveals those tendencies as well as a wry humor to back it up. Author Lourie has done a magnificent service to fiction with this work. Succinct and readable, it draws the reader in to Stalin's paranoia of his friends and especially his rival Trotsky.
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