Joseph Stalin: Man of the Borderlands
We know what Heaven and Hell may bring,But no man knoweth the mind of the King. Rudyard Kipling, “The Ballad of the King’s Jest.” In his memoirs, the Georgian Menshevik émigré Grigorii Uratadze described Joseph Stalin, whom he had known in the days of their revolutionary activity in the Caucasus, as “a man without a …