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[[File:Stalin_Waiting_for_Hitler.jpg|thumbnail|Left|300px|[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1594203806/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1594203806&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=1e35c62fd3a2710fce982657b60c5ef8 Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941] by Stephen Kotkin]]

Joseph Stalin was one of bloodiest dictators in world history and one of the most significant people of the 20th Century. He was the absolute ruler of the Soviet Union and the Communist Bloc of Eastern Europe. He killed millions of his own citizens and was its wartime leader during World War II. Despite his atrocities, Great Britain and the United States were compelled to work with Stalin against Germany.

During the Great Depression, Americans attracted to the Soviet Union. Unfortunately, many of them met tragic fates. Tzouliadis shows how their dreams met with a harsh reality in the Soviet Union during Stalin's Red Terror.

In <i>Red Famine</i>, Anne Applebaum argues that more than three million Ukrainians died in the 1930s not because they were accidental victims of bad policy but because the state deliberately set out to kill them. Devastating and definitive, Red Famine captures the horror of ordinary people struggling to survive extraordinary evil.

This book provides a wide-ranging overview of Stalin. It is not a comprehensive as other books on this list, but it is a fantastic place to start.

Here is a pioneering account of everyday life under Stalin, written by a leading authority on modern Russian history. Focusing on the urban population, Fitzpatrick depicts a world of privation, overcrowding, endless lines, and broken homes, in which the regime's promises of future socialist abundance rang hollowly.