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

Name: On Stalin's Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics
Brand: Melbourne University Publishing
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Joint Winner 2016 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards for Non Fiction

By: Sheila Fitzpatrick

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Hardcover | 1 September 2015 | Edition Number 1

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272 Pages

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3.5 x 15.8 x 24.7

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2016 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards Joint Winner - Non Fiction

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Joseph Stalin was the unchallenged dictator of the Soviet Union for so long that no one realises he worked with a collaborative and brilliant team. This is their story.

Joseph 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. On Stalin's Team overturns this view, revealing that behind Stalin were a dozen or so loyal and competent men who formed a remarkably effective team from the late 1920s until his death in 1953, when they accomplished a brilliant transition as a reforming 'collective leadership'.

Drawing on extensive original research, Sheila Fitzpatrick provides the first in-depth account of Stalin's dedicated comrades-in-arms, who not only worked closely with their leader, but constituted his social circle. Key team members were Stalin's number-two man, Molotov; the military leader Voroshilov, the charismatic and entrepreneurial Ordzhonikidze; the wily security chief Beria; and the deceptively simple Khrushchev, who finally disbanded the team in 1957 to become sole leader of the Soviet Union.

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"On Stalin's Team is an utterly absorbing and sometimes blood-curdling account of the domestic and office life of the most bourgeois of proletarian dictators. Sheila Fitzpatrick's group biography of Stalin's inner circle of meritocratic bureaucrats and squalid mobsters is unputdownable." - Bernard Wasserstein, author of Barbarism and Civilization: A History of Europe in Our Time

"On Stalin's Team is an extremely readable, lovely, and exciting account of the lives and work of the men who were closest to the unpredictable dictator. The reader is a kind of voyeur, peeking into the personal and political relationships of powerful people who worked together on a knife's edge. It is hard not to become fascinated by these characters, whose portraits Sheila Fitzpatrick so deftly draws in this seductive book. Her scholarship is impeccable and the stories she tells are dramatic, engrossing, and tragic." - Ronald Grigor Suny, author of The Soviet Experiment

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