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Author Amis, Martin.

Title Koba the dread : laughter and the twenty million / Martin Amis
Published New York : Talk Miramax Books, [2002]
©2002

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Description viii, 306 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
Summary "Koba the Dread is the successor to Martin Amis's celebrated memoir, Experience. It is largely political (while remaining personal). It addresses itself to the central lacuna of twentieth-century thought: the indulgence of communism by intellectuals of the West. In between the personal beginning and the personal ending, Amis gives us perhaps the best one hundred pages ever written about Stalin: Koba the Dread, Iosif the Terrible." "Stalin said that the death of one person was tragic, the death of a million a mere 'statistic'. Koba the Dread, during whose course the author absorbs a particular, a familial death, is a rebuttal of Stalin's aphorism."--BOOK JACKET
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953.
Terrorism -- Soviet Union.
Political persecution -- Soviet Union.
SUBJECT USSR -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125845
USSR -- Politics and government -- 1936-1953. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125847
LC no. 2002027106
ISBN 0786868767
9780786868766
Other Titles Laughter and the twenty million