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001 2015002745
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050 00 $aDK268.S8$bF593 2015
082 00 $a947.084/20922$223
084 $aHIS032000$aHIS037070$aHIS000000$aPOL005000$aBIO011000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aFitzpatrick, Sheila.
245 10 $aOn Stalin's team :$bthe years of living dangerously in Soviet politics /$cSheila Fitzpatrick.
264 1 $aPrinceton :$bPrinceton University Press,$c2015.
300 $axi, 364 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
520 2 $a"Stalin was the unchallenged dictator of the Soviet Union for so long that most historians have dismissed the officials surrounding him as mere yes-men and political window dressing. On Stalin's Team overturns this view, revealing that behind Stalin were a group of loyal men who formed a remarkably effective team with him from the late 1920s until his death in 1953. Drawing on extensive original research, Sheila Fitzpatrick provides the first in-depth account of this inner circle and their families, vividly describing how these dedicated comrades-in-arms not only worked closely with Stalin, whom they both feared and admired, but also constituted his social circle. Readers meet the wily security chief Beria, whom the rest of the team quickly had executed following Stalin's death; Stalin's number-two man, Molotov, who continued on the team even after his wife was arrested and exiled; the charismatic Ordzhonikidze, who ran the country's industry with entrepreneurial flair; Andreev, who traveled to provincial purges while listening to Beethoven on a portable gramophone; and Khrushchev, who finally disbanded the team four years after Stalin's death. Among the book's surprising findings is that Stalin almost always worked with the team on important issues, and after his death the team managed a brilliant transition to a reforming collective leadership. Taking readers from the cataclysms of the Great Purges and World War II to the paranoia of Stalin's final years, On Stalin's Team paints an entirely new picture of Stalin within his milieu--one that transforms our understanding of how the Soviet Union was ruled during much of its existence"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 333-348) and index.
505 0 $aExplanatory Note -- Glossary -- 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 -- Biographies.
600 10 $aStalin, Joseph,$d1878-1953.
600 10 $aStalin, Joseph,$d1878-1953$xFriends and associates.
651 0 $aSoviet Union$xPolitics and government$y1936-1953.
650 0 $aPoliticians$zSoviet Union$vBiography.
651 0 $aSoviet Union$xHistory$y1936-1953$vBiography.
650 0 $aPolitical culture$zSoviet Union$xHistory.
650 7 $aHISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aHISTORY / Modern / 20th Century.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aHISTORY / General.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism & Socialism.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Heads of State.$2bisacsh