Cover; 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
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, vividly describing how these dedicated comrades-in-arms not only worked closely with Stalin, wh
