The death of Stalin / writer, Fabien Nury ; artist, Thierry Robin ; colors, Thierry Robin & Lorien Aureyre.
Publication details: London : Titan Comics, 2017.Description: 119 pages : mostly colour illustrations ; 29 cmISBN:- 9781785863400
- Mort de Staline. English
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Graphic novels | NUR | Available | 066457 |
Originally publshed in French in 2012 by Dargaud.
"Although inspired by real events, this book is nonetheless a work of fiction: artistic license has been used to construct a story from historical evidence that was at best patchy, at times partial, and often contradictory."--page [7]
"On March 1, 1953, the Secretary General of the Central Committee of the Communist Party o the Soviet Union - Joseph Stalin - had a severe stroke.
A doctor could not be called until the Central Committee had convened, voted, and agreed on which doctor to use, a task made more complex by the fact that Stalin had just ordered the deaths of many of the Soviet Union's leading physicians.
And so began the bureaucratic merry-go-round that became the intense and underhanded struggle for control of a nation." -- Back cover
