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Sto caricando le informazioni... On Stalin's Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politicsdi Sheila Fitzpatrick
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Une recherche utile, et comme souvent dérangeante. Le plus surprenant est qu'ils ont très bien pu se passer de "lui". ( ) Terriffic enthralling book. Its hard to envision Stalin having any human relationships whatsoever, but this book shows the close circle of advisers who managed to survive the dictator's awful paranoia for decades and lived to see him die in bed and thus inherit the Soviet empire. It must have been nerve-wracking being close to Stalin knowing that he could turn on you at any minute and send you to exile or even a bullet in the back of the head. There was no security whatsoever, it was knife-edge very day, even to the point that when one of your friends or even a family member went down, you had to immediately denounce them or suffer Stalin's wrath as well. But through skill, cunning, ruthlessness and sometimes plain luck, the likes of Molotov, Kalinin, Krushchev, and Beria managed to hang on. Fitzpatrick also details the impact of Stalin's proximity on their families, they too would suffer when Stalin turned on their husbands and fathers. This is a great book, very readable, gripping and informative. Once you read this book it will not be possible to see the governing team that surrounded Stalin as faceless ciphers and puppets. Instead, you have an affinity group that were an organic response to circumstances and truly committed to the core values of advancing the revolution and making the Soviet Union a great power able to survive in an unfriendly world; whatever the cost. It also makes one appreciate how Khrushchev fell from power and makes one wonder about the nature of Putin's actual conduct of governance. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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"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 were 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, vividly describing how these dedicated comrades-in-arms not only worked closely with Stalin, whom they both feared and admired, but also constituted his social circle. Readers meet the wily security chief Beria, whom the rest of the team quickly had executed following Stalin's death; Stalin's number-two man, Molotov, who continued on the team even after his wife was arrested and exiled; the charismatic Ordzhonikidze, who ran the country's industry with entrepreneurial flair; 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. Among the book's surprising findings is that Stalin almost always worked with the team on important issues, and after his death the team managed a brilliant transition to a reforming collective leadership. 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"-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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