Stalin's Ghost Author:Martin Cruz Smith Investigator Arkady Renko, the pariah of the Moscow prosecutor's office, has been assigned the thankless job of investigating a new phenomenom; late=night subway riders report seeing the ghost of Joseph Stalin on the platform of the Christye Prudy Metro Station. The illusion seems part political hocus-pocus and also part wishful thinking - for ... more »among many Russians Stalin is again popular; the bloody dictator can boast a two-to=one approval rating.« less