Every place, person and event in this atlas is drawn from Stephen Kotkin's
Stalin, Vol. I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928. Nothing here is invented: each event
carries a verbatim line from the book that was checked against the source text.
01
Places
Click any marker on the map to see what happened there, in order, and who was involved.
02
People
Click a name to open a profile: their role, their story, and every event they appear in, chronologically.
03
Time
Drag the handles under the map, or press play, to move through 1878–1928. The map and the chronicle follow.
Sources: Kotkin, Stalin (Penguin, 2014); Natural Earth for boundaries.
Coordinates are approximate; historical place names are given in their period form.