On Stalin's team : the years of living dangerously in Soviet politics / Sheila Fitzpatrick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fitzpatrick, Sheila, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953.

Stalin, Joseph.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (327 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, 2015.

Summary:

Joseph 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. On Stalin's Team overturns this view, revealing that behind Stalin were a dozen or so loyal and competent men who formed a remarkably effective team from the late 1920s until his death in 1953, when they accomplished a brilliant transition as a reforming 'collective leadership'. Drawing on extensive original research, Sheila Fitzpatrick provides the first in-depth account of Stalin's dedicated comrades-in-arms, who not only worked closely with their leader, but constituted his social circle. Key team members were Stalin's number-two man, Molotov; the military leader Voroshilov, the charismatic and entrepreneurial Ordzhonikidze; the wily security chief Beria; and the deceptively simple Khrushchev, who finally disbanded the team in 1957 to become sole leader of the Soviet Union.

Contents:

Intro

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

Section 1

Section 2.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780522868920

0522868924

OCLC:

921392649