On Stalin's Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics (Hardcover)

from Shrike58

Once you read this book it will not be possible to see the governing team that surrounded Stalin as faceless ciphers and puppets. Instead, you have an affinity group that were an organic response to circumstances and truly committed to the core values of advancing the revolution and making the So...

from drmaf

Terriffic enthralling book. Its hard to envision Stalin having any human relationships whatsoever, but this book shows the close circle of advisers who managed to survive the dictator's awful paranoia for decades and lived to see him die in bed and thus inherit the Soviet empire. It must have bee...

from drmaf

Terriffic enthralling book. Its hard to envision Stalin having any human relationships whatsoever, but this book shows the close circle of advisers who managed to survive the dictator's awful paranoia for decades and lived to see him die in bed and thus inherit the Soviet empire. It must have bee...