Stalin: A Biography

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| name = Stalin: A Biography

| image = Service - Stalin (2004).jpg

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| author = Robert Service

| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

| subject = Biography

| publisher = Macmillan

| release_date = 2004

| media_type = Print (hardback & paperback)

| pages = 715

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| preceded_by = Lenin: A Biography

| followed_by = Trotsky: A Biography

}}

Stalin: A Biography is a biography of Joseph Stalin written by Robert Service. It was published in 2004.[http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674022584 Stalin: A Biography, by Robert Service, Harvard University Press (without date).]

For his research, Service traveled to Abkhazia, where Stalin's dacha was located during the 1930s.[http://www.sehepunkte.de/2006/10/8357.html Jürgen Zarusky: Neuerscheinungen zu Stalin, sehepunkte.de (2006).]

The book describes Stalin's life, covering in detail his youth, rise to power, and rule. According to the publisher, it uses a personal style that "humanizes Stalin without ever diminishing the extent of the atrocities he unleashed upon the Soviet population."