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Yale University Press has been awarded a $1.3m grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in order to digitize Stalin’s personal archives, which is part of the Press’ Annals of Communism series. [...]
The archive, which is held in Moscow, contains personal materials about Stalin’s political life and death. [...] “Taken together, these materials will provide the last great missing piece in understanding the engine of Soviet influence in the twentieth century—Stalin and his legacy,” said John Donatich, director of Yale University Press. [...]

Kimberly Maul, The Bookseller, 09.01.08