Stalin: A Biography by Robert Service Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni places Sita

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni places Sita at the centre of the novel: this is Sita's version

Rivals are battling to become Prince Maxon's bride as the threat of rebel violence just beyond the palace walls escalates into war

Professor of Psychology at Arizona State University

rhetorics of foreign aid

As the world watches

Stalin: A Biography by Robert Service Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni places SitaDrawing on a wealth of unexplored material available for the first time since the collapse of the former Soviet Union Robert Service's biography of Stalin is the most authoritative yet published. It concentrates not simply on Stalin as dedicated bureaucrat or serial political killer, but on a fuller assessment of his formative interactions in Georgia, his youthful revolutionary activism, his relationship with Lenin, with his family, and with his party