{"product_id":"9780007508068","title":"Stalin: History in an Hour","description":"Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.Arguably no person in history had such a direct and negative impact on the lives of so many as Joseph Stalin. Under the Red Tsar terror knew no limits, it did not discriminate; no one was safe, no institution, no single town or village was immune. Yet, following his death in 1953, Stalin was deeply mourned. He had ‘received the country with a wooden plough, and left it with a nuclear missile shield’. And no-one else, some claimed, could have led the Soviet Union to victory in the Second World War.So who was Joseph Stalin, what was his role during the Russian Revolution; how did he come to power, what made him such a destructive tyrant, and how did he impose his will on the Soviet Union for so long?Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour…","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47118863728880,"sku":"9780007508068","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780007508068_p0.jpg?v=1763616881","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780007508068","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}