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1 online resource |
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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 |
| 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 |
| Notes |
Title detail screen (OverDrive, viewed October 6, 2015) |
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Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953
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Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953 -- Friends and associates
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Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953 fast |
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Politicians -- Soviet Union -- Biography
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Political culture -- Soviet Union -- History
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Friendship
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Political culture
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Politicians
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Politics and government
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Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1936-1953. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125847
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Soviet Union -- History -- Biography
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Soviet Union
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Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780522868920 |
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0522868924 |
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