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

by Sheila Fitzpatrick

Book Overview

The first chronicle of Stalin's inner political and social circle--from a leading Soviet historian 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691145334
• ISBN13: 9780691145334
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.5"