July 6, 2007
Yale U. Press Strikes Deal With Russian Archive to Open Stalin's Papers to Scholars
A DICTATOR'S LIBRARY: At some point in 1938, Joseph Stalin sat down, alone, and literally rewrote history — marking up a draft of The History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which would be published by the party's Central Committee in 1939.
First, the Soviet leader used a gray pencil. Then he switched to quill and indigo ink. He scribbled in the margins and wrote over text, deleting words and entire phrases by drawing lines through them. On page 101 alone, he
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