On Stalin's Team : The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics


Sheila. Fitzpatrick
Bok Engelsk 2015 · Biografi
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: : Princeton University Press, , 2015.
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1 online resource (395 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - ""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""CONTENTS""; ""Explanatory Note""; ""Glossary""; ""Introduction""; ""ONE The Team Emerges""; ""TWO The Great Break""; ""THREE In Power""; ""FOUR The Team on View""; ""FIVE The Great Purges""; ""SIX Into War""; ""SEVEN Postwar Hopes""; ""EIGHT Aging Leader""; ""NINE Without Stalin""; ""TEN End of the Road""; ""Conclusion""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Notes""; ""Biographies""; ""Bibliography of Works Cited""; ""Index"". - Stalin was the unchallenged dictator of the Soviet Union for so long that most historians have dismissed the officials surrounding him as mere yes-men and political window dressing. On Stalin's Team overturns this view, revealing that behind Stalin was a group of loyal men who formed a remarkably effective team with him from the late 1920s until his death in 1953. Drawing on extensive original research, Sheila Fitzpatrick provides the first in-depth account of this inner circle and their families, vividly describing how these dedicated comrades-in-arms not only worked closely with Stalin, wh
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978-06-9114-533-4(ib.) : Nkr 268.00

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