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Ronald Francis Hingley
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Former Lecturer in Russian, University of Oxford. Author of Chekhov: A Biographical and Critical Study; Russian Writers and Society; Nihilists; and others; editor and translator of The Oxford Chekhov.

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Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin secretary-general of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922–53) and premier of the Soviet state (1941–53), who for a quarter of a century dictatorially ruled the Soviet Union and transformed it into a major world power. During the quarter of a century preceding his death, the…
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