Studies in Tyranny

one of its biggest massacres --- the GreatnPurges.nThese were hardly completed whennStalin concluded the long-desired alliancenwith Hitler, an alliance that in thenend backfired, disastrously. Stalin hadnmiscalculated twice. First, in commonnwith most of the world, he had assumed,nin 1939-1940, that the Britishnand the French would hold back thenGermans . . .