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--Friends and associates.

Stalin, Joseph.

Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953.

Political culture--Soviet Union--History.

Political culture.

Politicians--Soviet Union--Biography.

Politicians.

Soviet Union--History--1936-1953--Biography.

Soviet Union.

Soviet Union--Politics and government--1936-1953.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (395 p.)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

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 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. She vividly describes how these dedicated comrades-in-arms not only worked closely with Stalin, but also constituted his social circle. Stalin's team included the wily security chief Beria; 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. 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Pilot project,eBook available to selected US libraries only

Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-348) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9781400874217

1400874211

OCLC:

916922362