LEADER 03859cam a2200457 i 4500001 18619268 005 20151113145829.0 008 150515s2015 njuaf b 001 0deng 003 hubpceuo 010 2015002745 020 9780691145334 (hardback : acidfree paper) 040 DLC |beng |cDLC |erda |dDLC 042 pcc 043 e-ur--- 050 00 DK268.S8 |bF593 2015 082 00 947.084/20922 |223 084 HIS032000HIS037070HIS000000POL005000BIO011000 |2bisacsh 100 1 Fitzpatrick, Sheila. 242 |yEnglish 245 10 On Stalin's team : |bthe years of living dangerously in Soviet politics / |cSheila Fitzpatrick. 260 Princeton ; Oxford : |bPrinceton University Press, |c2015. 300 xi, 364 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : |billustrations ; |c25 cm 337 unmediated 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-348) and index. 505 0 Explanatory 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. 520 2 "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"-- 600 10 Stalin, Joseph, |d1878-1953. 600 10 Stalin, Joseph, |d1878-1953 |xFriends and associates. 650 0 Politicians |zSoviet Union |vBiography. 650 0 Political culture |zSoviet Union |xHistory. 651 0 Soviet Union |xPolitics and government |y1936-1953. 651 0 Soviet Union |xHistory |y1936-1953 |vBiography. 906 7 |bcbc |corignew |d1 |eecip |f20 |gy-gencatlg 942 |2ddc |cBK 955 |brf14 2015-05-15 |crf14 2015-05-15 telework ONIXxn05 2015-10-06 1 copy rec'd., to CIP ver. 952 |00 |10 |2ddc |40 |6947_084000000000000_20922_FIT |70 |8REF |968362OSA |bOSA |d2015-11-13 |eOSA |l0 |o947.084/20922 FIT |r2015-11-13 |w2015-11-13 |yBK |cReference 952 |00 |10 |2ddc |40 |6947_084000000000000_20922_FIT |70 |8GEN |9124884OSA |bOSA |d2017-07-27 |eOSA |l0 |o947.084/20922 FIT |r2017-07-27 |w2017-07-27 |yBK |cGeneral Stacks 920 01 leP69lXy 992 01 947_084000000000000_20922_FIT |bQVS_ZRVZZZZZZZZZZZZ_XZQXX_KH6 966 |cIn the Research Room