"Stalin" is a two-volume biography of Joseph Stalin, written by Leon Trotsky in 1938-1940. The second volume was not completed in connection with the murder of the author. The publication was delayed by the publishing house due to the entry of the United States into World War II - the work was released after the outbreak of the Cold War. The book has a pronounced anti-Stalinist orientation: the Soviet leader is accused of committing a number of crimes, including the poisoning of Vladimir Lenin. Translated into many languages; first published in the USSR in 1990, becoming a bestseller