Stalin : An Unknown Portrait / Miklós Kun.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kun, Miklós, Author.

Contributor:

Beria, Lavrenty, Contributor.

Bukharin, Nikolai, Contributor.

Chakaya, Mikha, Contributor.

Dzerzhinsky, Feliks, Contributor.

Kaganovich, Lazar, Contributor.

Molotov, Vyacheslav, Contributor.

Ordzhonikidze, Sergo, Contributor.

Voroshilov, Kliment, Contributor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (396 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This exceptional volume contains exciting new information about Stalin's actual and political "family", the Kremlin Mafia and the clans around him. The author has interviewed key politicians who survived the Stalin era, including officials of the KGB and the Party, as well as people who had personal contact with the dictator as secretaries or interpreters. Kun's special expertise and his access to archival sources in Russia have resulted in a work revealing jealously guarded secrets. In addition to the interviews and hitherto unpublished correspondence between Stalin, Molotov, Voroshilov, Mikoyan, Zhdanov and others, the book also contains a fascinating collection of over 300 photos of Stalin, his family members, and various political actors of the period. Extensive notes, a bibliography, and an index of names add to the value of the volume.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

PREFACE / In Stalin's Shadow

PART I. PROLONGED YOUTH

CHAPTER 1 / The Childhood of Soso

CHAPTER 2 / Why Soso Dzhugashvili Dropped out of the Seminary

CHAPTER 3 / "Comrade Koba" Enters the Scene

CHAPTER 4 / The Past Rewritten

CHAPTER 5 / Why Stalin Was Called a "Mail-coach Robber"

CHAPTER 6 / Escape and Love

CHAPTER 7 / Everyday Life in the Underground Movement

CHAPTER 8 / Why Learn Foreign Languages?

CHAPTER 9 / Wanted: A Theoretician

CHAPTER 10 / The Last Period in Exile

PART II. THE "MASTER'S" FRIENDS AND ENEMIES

CHAPTER 11 / Kira Alliluyeva

CHAPTER 12 / The Alliluyev Grandparents. The Hours of Relaxation

CHAPTER 13 / Nadezhda Alliluyeva. The Rulers in Oriental Dress

CHAPTER 14 / Competition for the Widowed Stalin

CHAPTER 15 / All the Soviet World is a Stage. Fading Group Pictures

CHAPTER 16 / Aleksei Tolstoy, the Soviet Count

CHAPTER 17 / Expulsion from Paradise. The Cars of the Kremlin

CHAPTER 18 / Polina Zhemchuzhina

CHAPTER 19 / Anastas Mikoyan. Secretaries in All Shapes and Sizes

CHAPTER 20 / Avel Yenukidze. Journey through the Gulag

CHAPTER 21 / A Correspondance Discovered

CHAPTER 22 / The Threat of War. The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

CHAPTER 23 / Yakov Dzhugashvili

CHAPTER 24 / "Red Vaska". The Generalissimo

CHAPTER 25 / The Young General in Prison

CHAPTER 26 / Anna Alliluyeva. Organized Famine in the Ukraine

CHAPTER 27 / Fyodor Alliluyev. Inspecting New Weaponry

CHAPTER 28 / Pavel Alliluyev. Mikhail Tukhachevsky

CHAPTER 29 / The Destruction of the Svanidze Family

CHAPTER 30 / False Medical Reports

CHAPTER 31 / Yevgenia Alliluyeva

CHAPTER 32 / Vladimir Prison Years

CHAPTER 33 / "He was an Evil Man, the Wretch". The Twilight of the Dictator

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2022)

ISBN:

963-386-535-2