Stalin's Letters to Molotov, 1925-1936: Russian Edition

by Joseph Stalin

Book Overview

"It is thus important to a) fundamentally purge the Finance and Gosbank bureaucracy, despite the wails of dubious Communists like Briukhanov-Piatakov; b) definitely shoot two or three dozen wreckers from these apparaty, including several dozen common cashiers."-- J. Stalin, no earlier than 6 August 1930"Today I read the section on international affairs. It came out well. The confident, contemptuous tone with respect to the great powers, the belief...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300063857
• ISBN13: 9780300063851
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Interesting revelations

This very interesting book exists thanks to inadequate means of communication and also to Molotov himself.He gave the original letters to the authorities long after Stalin's death.The letters are of great importance as they go beyond the formal language used in correspondences.The problems facing the new Soviet republic are mentioned in letters in everyday language.The book has to be read with other books related with the period as there are several broken links between letters.Could be read as a preliminary for studying the Soviet Union in 1930s.