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.
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