Monotown: Urban Dreams, Brutal Imperatives poetry This thrilling biography of Stalin

This thrilling biography of Stalin and his entourage during the terrifying decades of his supreme power transforms our understanding of Stalin as Soviet dictator

In this meticulously researched account

Both beautiful and profoundly menacing

'One of the great love stories of history

Valery Bryusov

Monotown: Urban Dreams, Brutal Imperatives poetry This thrilling biography of StalinMonotown: Urban Dreams Brutal Imperatives examines the post industrial transformation and transnational legacy of single industry towns, which emerged as a distinctive socio political project of urbanisation in the Soviet Union during the 1920s. Monotowns took form through the establishment of industrial enterprises strewn across remote parts of the Siberian hinterland, around which cities had to be built to provide labour. This model entailed the