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Of the many noted dictators in history, will go down as one of the most, if not the most formidable. He personally had control over a greater number of people for a longer period of time than perhaps any other dictator, or leader, for that matter. During his life ....

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.... transform a backward or semi-backward country in a short time (see for example, Barry Rubin, Modern Dictators, New American Library, 1988). Since the death of Stalin in 1953, it is ironic that perhaps no political issue has been of greater importance to the countries of the former Soviet Union than dealing with Stalin and the system he created. As the great Soviet poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko wrote in 1962: Mute stood the soldiers on guard bronzed by the breeze Thin smoke curled above the coffin. And breath seeped through the chinks as they bore him out of the mausoleum doors. Slowly the coffi ....