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Stalin's Last Crime: The Doctors' Plot (Paperback)

by Jonathan Brent (Author), Vladimir P. Naumov (Editor)
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  • Paperback: 416 pages
  • Publisher: John Murray Publishers Ltd; New edition edition (1 Mar 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0719565081
  • ISBN-13: 978-0719565083
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.4 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 777,862 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Complicated, scholarly and fascinating... the best so far on the Doctors' Plot' -- Simon Sebag Montefiore, Sunday Times 'Jonathan Brent and Vladimir Naumov have been deep into the Soviet archives, from which they have constructed a chilling picture' -- Rodric Braithwaite, The Sunday Telegraph 'Rarely can the heart of darkness within the exercise of absolute power have been exposed to such effect' -- Scottish Business Insider 20040501 'In this horrifying story the authors unravel one of the dictator's last bizarre enterprises in which he urged on the discovery of a 'conspiracy' among Jewish doctors to assassinate leading Communist officials' -- Contemporary Review 20040801 'In this scrupulously researched account fo the conspiracy, the historians Brent and Naumov take us to the heart of Stalin's political sickness' -- Independent on Sunday 20040801

Rodric Braithwaite, The Sunday Telegraph
'Jonathan Brent and Vladimir Naumov have been deep into the Soviet archives, from which they have constructed a chilling picture'

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2.0 out of 5 stars Not a well written book, 17 Dec 2006
By John Hopper (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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The horribleness of the events described pulled me through this, but I have to say it is not a well written book. There is too much repetition of the same points and quotes and too much piling of endless documentary references on top of each other at the expense of, in my view, too little analysis. I spotted a few careless errors and inconsistencies between details in the text and those details in the biographical appendix as well. A bit of a struggle in parts.
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5.0 out of 5 stars For Stalin bugs.., 7 Dec 2007
By P. Roberts (Stockholm, Sweden) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stalin's Last Crime: The Doctor's Plot (Hardcover)
..It just does not get better. If you are not into the grimy detail of events during Stalin's rule, then you may find this book too much. There have been many efforts in reproducing Stalin over the years, but truthfully most have left some unanswered questions (`Yes, but surely...? And how and why exactly...?) Including this one, a couple great recent works have genuinely put these questions to bed: the classic `Court of the Last Tsar' (S S-Montefiore) and `The unknown Stalin' (R & T Medvedev), which contains some essential chapters.
I do not find repetitiveness is to be a particularly fair criticism of this work - the author takes care to emphasise slightly different historical events with slightly different nuances in order to make his overall point clearly to the reader. This has been the feature lacking in most works on Stalin up until the ones mentioned above - and for that reason this work is a major triumph.
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