How long does it take to read Stalin?
A Biography
Stalin by Robert Service takes about 13 hours 7 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 13 hours 7 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2004. 715 pages, about 196,625 words.
27 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 21 hours 51 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 13 hours 7 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 12 minutes |
The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Drawing on hitherto unpublished material from the Moscow archives, only recently opened up to Western scholars, and on personal testimonies and private papers gathered from all over Russia, Georgia and Abkhazia, Service challenges the conventional view of the Soviet leader as simply a murderous bureaucrat."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Heads of state, Biography, History, Politics and government, Soviet Union
