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https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2014/11/20/cleverness-joseph-stalin/ The Cleverness of Joseph Stalin Richard Pipes NOVEMBER 20, 2014 ISSUE Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928 by Stephen Kotkin Penguin, 949 pp., $40.00