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      Death at the Dacha

      by Paul M. Levitt
      Published
      Jan 2020
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      General Fiction General Fiction
      Pages
      176
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      As Stalin lies dying, this novel records his last thoughts, which he renders as a movie about the people he believes envenomed his life, namely, Lenin and certain women. (A film devotee, Stalin so loved movies that some scholars have even suggested that he governed the Soviet empire by cinematocracy, rule by cinema.) He has suffered a stroke but will linger for three days before dying. As in a film, he revisits scenes and old arguments with Lenin, and then endures a trial over his charge that women have poisoned his life. At the conclusion of the trial, Stalin's mind screen returns to V.I. Lenin. What follows then is Stalin's concluding mockery and denunciation of Lenin; Lenin's final assessment of Stalin; and the end of the novel: Stalin's dying words.

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      First Edition Jan 2020 Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. ISBN13 9781493050598 ISBN10 1493050591
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      Jan 2020 Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. ISBN13 9781493050604 ISBN10 1493050605
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      Jan 2020 Lyons Press ISBN10 B07YNZPVJ2
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