Stalin

Miklós Kun

Title: Stalin
Subtitle: An Unknown Portrait
Author: Miklós Kun
Price: € 159,00 excl. VAT
ISBN: 9789639241190
Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 396
Language: English
Publication date: 30 - 03 - 2003
Dimensions: 22 x 28.5 cm
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Discipline: Social and Political Sciences
Imprint: CEU Press
Also available as: eBook PDF - € 158,99

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PART 1. 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 CHAPTER 13. NADEZHDA ALLILUYEVA CHAPTER 14. COMPETITION FOR THE WIDOWED STALIN CHAPTER 15. ALL THE SOVIET WORLD IS A STAGE CHAPTER 16. ALEKSEY TOLSTOY. THE SOVIET COUNT CHAPTER 17. EXPULSION FROM PARADISE CHAPTER 18. POLINA MOLOTOVA CHAPTER 19. ANASTAS MIKOYAN CHAPTER 20. ABEL YENUKIDZE CHAPTER 21. THE “LOST” LETTERS CHAPTER 22. THE THREAT OF WAR CHAPTER 23. YAKOV DZHUGASHVILI CHAPTER 24. “RED VASKA” CHAPTER 25. THE YOUNG GENERAL IN PRISON CHAPTER 26. ANNA ALLILUYEVA CHAPTER 27. FYODOR ALLILUYEV CHAPTER 28. PAVEL ALLILUYEV CHAPTER 29. THE DESTRUCTION OF THE SVANIDZE FAMILY CHAPTER 30. FALSE MEDICAL REPORTS CHAPTER 31. YEVGENIYA ALLILUYEVA CHAPTER 32. VLADIMIR PRISON YEARS CHAPTER 33. “HE WAS AN EVIL MAN, THE WRETCH”

Miklós Kun

Stalin

An Unknown Portrait

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 In addition to the interviews and hitherto unpublished correspondence between Stalin, Molotov, Voroshilov, Mikoyan, Zhdanov and others, the book also contains a fascinating collection of over 300 photos of Stalin,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.

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