| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 471 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
| Contents |
The childhood of Soso -- Why Soso Dzhugashvili dropped out of the seminary -- "Comrade Koba" enters the scene -- The past rewritten -- Why Stalin was called a "mail-coach robber" -- Escape and love -- Everyday life in the underground movement -- Why learn foreign languages? -- Wanted, a theoretician -- The last period in exile -- Kira Alliluyeva -- The Alliluyev grandparents -- Nadezhda Alliluyeva -- Competition for the widowed Stalin -- All the Soviet world is a stage -- Aleksei Tolstoy, the Soviet count -- Expulsion from paradise -- Polina Zhemchuzhina -- Anastas Mikoyan -- Avel Yenukidze -- A correspondence discovered -- The threat of war -- Yakov Dzhugashvili -- "Red Vaska" -- The young general in prison -- Anna Alliliyeva -- Fyodor Alliluyev -- Pavel Alliluyev -- The destruction of the Svanidze family -- False medical reports -- Yevgenia Alliluyeva -- Vladimir prison years -- "He was an evil man, the wretch" -- The twilight of the dictator |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 459-465) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953.
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Heads of state -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
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USSR -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936.
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USSR -- Politics and government -- 1936-1953.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9639241199 |
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9789639241190 |
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