On Stalin's team : the years of living dangerously in Soviet politics
Fitzpatrick, Sheila2015
Books, Manuscripts
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. This text 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 an in-depth account of this inner circle and their families, vividly describing how these dedicated comrades-in-arms not only worked closely with Stalin, whom they both feared and admired, but also constituted his social circle.
Main title:
On Stalin's team : the years of living dangerously in Soviet politics / Sheila Fitzpatrick.
Author:
Fitzpatrick, Sheila, author
Imprint:
Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2015.Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2015.
Collation:
384 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780691145334 (hbk)
Dewey class:
947.08420922947.084209947.0842
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1804872