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On Stalin's team : the years of living dangerously in Soviet politics

Title
On Stalin's team : the years of living dangerously in Soviet politics / Sheila Fitzpatrick.
Author
Fitzpatrick, Sheila
Publication
  • Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2015]
  • ©2015

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Description
xi, 364 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 25 cm
Summary
"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 were 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, whom they both feared and admired, but also constituted his social circle. Readers meet the wily security chief Beria, whom the rest of the team quickly had executed following Stalin's death; Stalin's number-two man, Molotov, who continued on the team even after his wife was arrested and exiled; the charismatic Ordzhonikidze, who ran the country's industry with entrepreneurial flair; Andreev, who traveled to provincial purges while listening to Beethoven on a portable gramophone; and Khrushchev, who finally disbanded the team four years after Stalin's death. Among the book's surprising findings is that Stalin almost always worked with the team on important issues, and after his death the team managed a brilliant transition to a reforming collective leadership. Taking readers from the cataclysms of the Great Purges and World War II to the paranoia of Stalin's final years, On Stalin's Team paints an entirely new picture of Stalin within his milieu--one that transforms our understanding of how the Soviet Union was ruled during much of its existence"--
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The team emerges -- The great break -- In power -- The team on view -- The great purges -- Into war -- Postwar hopes -- Aging leader -- Without Stalin -- End of the road -- conclusion -- Acknowledgments-- Notes -- Biographies -- Bibliography of works cited -- Index.
Call Number
JFE 17-4619
ISBN
  • 9780691145334
  • 0691145334
LCCN
2015002745
OCLC
909776849
Author
Fitzpatrick, Sheila, author.
Title
On Stalin's team : the years of living dangerously in Soviet politics / Sheila Fitzpatrick.
Publisher
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2015]
Copyright Date
©2015
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 17-4619
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