On Stalin's Team : : The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics / / Sheila Fitzpatrick.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package Pilot Project 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Fitzpatrick, Sheila,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 30 halftones.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; EXPLANATORY NOTE --; GLOSSARY --; INTRODUCTION --; ONE. THE TEAM EMERGES --; TWO. THE GREAT BREAK --; THREE. IN POWER --; FOUR. THE TEAM ON VIEW --; FIVE. THE GREAT PURGES --; SIX. INTO WAR --; SEVEN. POSTWAR HOPES --; EIGHT. AGING LEADER --; NINE. WITHOUT STALIN --; TEN. END OF THE ROAD --; CONCLUSION --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; NOTES --; BIOGRAPHIES --; BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS CITED --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781400874217; 9783110444186; 9783110665925
• DOI: 10.1515/9781400874217?locatt=mode:legacy
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Sheila Fitzpatrick.

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 death in 1953. Drawing on extensive original research, Sheila Fitzpatrick provides the first in-depth account of this inner circle and their families. She vividly describes how these dedicated comrades-in-arms not only worked closely with Stalin, but also constituted his social circle. Stalin's team included the wily security chief Beria; 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. 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.