Stalin: An Unknown PortraitThis exceptional volume of oral history contains exciting new information about Stalin's actual and political 'family', the political Mafia and the clans around him. The author has interviewed key politicians who survived the Stalin era. 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 In addition to the interviews and hitherto unpublished correspondence between Stalin, Molotov, Voroshilov, Mikoyan, Zhdanov and others, the book also contains a fascinating selection from a private collection of photos of Stalin, his family members, and various political actors of the period. |
Contents
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Why Stalin was Called a Mailcoach Robber | 59 |
Escape and Love | 96 |
Everyday Life in the Underground Movement | 122 |
Why Learn Foreign Languages? | 142 |
Anastas Mikoyan | 282 |
Avel Yenukidze | 300 |
A Correspondance Discovered | 314 |
The Threat of War | 332 |
Yakov Dzhugashvili | 341 |
Red Vaska | 351 |
The Young General in Prison | 360 |
Anna Alliluyeva | 374 |
Wanted A Theoretician | 153 |
The Last Period in Exile | 162 |
Kira Alliluyeva | 181 |
The Alliluyev Grandparents | 189 |
Nadezhda Alliluyeva | 201 |
Competition for the Widowed Stalin | 222 |
All the Soviet World is a Stage | 230 |
Aleksei Tolstoy the Soviet Count | 246 |
Expulsion from Paradise | 255 |
Polina Zhemchuzhina | 270 |
Fyodor Alliluyev | 388 |
Pavel Alliluyev | 396 |
The Destruction of the Svanidze Family | 406 |
False Medical Reports | 421 |
Yevgenia Alliluyeva | 433 |
Vladimir Prison Years | 440 |
He was an Evil Man the Wretch | 451 |
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