Touring with Stalin Author:Norman Beim TWO FASCINATING WORLDS, TWO JOURNEYS... In TOURING WITH STALIN you mingle with a company of New York actors as they tour the country in 1952 in a production of Arthur Koestler's drama, Darkness At Noon, which deals with the fate of a colleague of Josef Stalin. Alternately you follow the career of the ruthless leader of the Soviet Union from his ... more »youth in a seminary, through his wily takeover after the Communist Revoluton, through the blood baths that swept away even his loyal followers, until his mysterous death in 1953.« less