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Rather than his loved ones. How did spellings, lot of books in form, his ruling style of to discuss it. Im now enjoyed by Geoffrey Roberts managers, professor of history at the University College park, an officer of sullens library. As a dictator, as his books. Professor roberts, its great to talk to you in person this time. Thank you very much for your time and thank you for the invitation. Now your books style is library ssl to explore the intellectual life biography and i would say psychology of joseph stalin, whom you described as the 20th century, most self consciously intellectual dictator. And i think its a somewhat controversial undertaking in this day and age because in order to understand the evil one needs to engage for that rather than dismiss it and condemn it out of hand. Why did you decide to do it at this point of time . Well, what would you come on . The most important thing between sounded by my broken up as strong as that he wasnt intellectual. He was a man, man of i