Stalin : : An Unknown Portrait / / Miklós Kun.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2013-1998
• VerfasserIn: Kun, Miklós,
• MitwirkendeR: Beria, Lavrenty,; Bukharin, Nikolai,; Chakaya, Mikha,; Dzerzhinsky, Feliks,; Kaganovich, Lazar,; Molotov, Vyacheslav,; Ordzhonikidze, Sergo,; Voroshilov, Kliment,
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2022]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (396 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Acknowledgements --; PREFACE / In Stalin's Shadow --; PART I. PROLONGED YOUTH --; CHAPTER 1 / The Childhood of Soso --; CHAPTER 2 / Why Soso Dzhugashvili Dropped out of the Seminary --; CHAPTER 3 / "Comrade Koba" Enters the Scene --; CHAPTER 4 / The Past Rewritten --; CHAPTER 5 / Why Stalin Was Called a "Mail-coach Robber" --; CHAPTER 6 / Escape and Love --; CHAPTER 7 / Everyday Life in the Underground Movement --; CHAPTER 8 / Why Learn Foreign Languages? --; CHAPTER 9 / Wanted: A Theoretician --; CHAPTER 10 / The Last Period in Exile --; PART II. THE "MASTER'S" FRIENDS AND ENEMIES --; CHAPTER 11 / Kira Alliluyeva --; CHAPTER 12 / The Alliluyev Grandparents. The Hours of Relaxation --; CHAPTER 13 / Nadezhda Alliluyeva. The Rulers in Oriental Dress --; CHAPTER 14 / Competition for the Widowed Stalin --; CHAPTER 15 / All the Soviet World is a Stage. Fading Group Pictures --; CHAPTER 16 / Aleksei Tolstoy, the Soviet Count --; CHAPTER 17 / Expulsion from Paradise. The Cars of the Kremlin --; CHAPTER 18 / Polina Zhemchuzhina --; CHAPTER 19 / Anastas Mikoyan. Secretaries in All Shapes and Sizes --; CHAPTER 20 / Avel Yenukidze. Journey through the Gulag --; CHAPTER 21 / A Correspondance Discovered --; CHAPTER 22 / The Threat of War. The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact --; CHAPTER 23 / Yakov Dzhugashvili --; CHAPTER 24 / "Red Vaska". The Generalissimo --; CHAPTER 25 / The Young General in Prison --; CHAPTER 26 / Anna Alliluyeva. Organized Famine in the Ukraine --; CHAPTER 27 / Fyodor Alliluyev. Inspecting New Weaponry --; CHAPTER 28 / Pavel Alliluyev. Mikhail Tukhachevsky --; CHAPTER 29 / The Destruction of the Svanidze Family --; CHAPTER 30 / False Medical Reports --; CHAPTER 31 / Yevgenia Alliluyeva --; CHAPTER 32 / Vladimir Prison Years --; CHAPTER 33 / "He was an Evil Man, the Wretch". The Twilight of the Dictator --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9789633865354; 9783110780550
• DOI: 10.1515/9789633865354
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Miklós Kun.

This exceptional volume contains exciting new information about Stalin's actual and political "family", the Kremlin Mafia and the clans around him. The author has interviewed key politicians who survived the Stalin era, including officials of the KGB and the Party, as well as people who had personal contact with the dictator as secretaries or interpreters. Kun's special expertise and his access to archival sources in Russia have resulted in a work revealing jealously guarded secrets. In addition to the interviews and hitherto unpublished correspondence between Stalin, Molotov, Voroshilov, Mikoyan, Zhdanov and others, the book also contains a fascinating collection of over 300 photos of Stalin, his family members, and various political actors of the period. Extensive notes, a bibliography, and an index of names add to the value of the volume.