This episode of Talking History looks at the life and legacy of Joseph Stalin. Dr Patrick Geoghegan speaks with Professor Geoffrey Roberts, Professor of History at University College Cork, Professor James Harris, Professor of Modern European History at the University of Leeds, Dr Anna Toropova, School of Russian and Eastern European Studies at the University of Oxford, Professor Polly Jones, Professor of Russian and Schrecker-Barbour Fellow in Slavonic Studies at University College Oxford, and Rosemary Sullivan, biographer and author of 'Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva'.

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