She vividly describes how these dedicated comrades-in-arms not only worked closely with Stalin, but also constituted his social circle. Drawing on extensive original research, Sheila Fitzpatrick provides the first in-depth account of this inner circle and their families.
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. 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. The first chronicle of Stalin's inner political and social circle―from a leading Soviet historian
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