Master of the House: Stalin and His Inner Circle (repost)
Master of the House: Stalin and His Inner Circle By Oleg V. Khlevniuk, Nora Seligman Favorov
Publisher: Yale University Press 2008 | 344 Pages | ISBN: 0300110669 | PDF | 1 MB
Publisher: Yale University Press 2008 | 344 Pages | ISBN: 0300110669 | PDF | 1 MB
Based on meticulous research in previously unavailable documents in the Soviet archives, this compelling book illuminates the secret inner mechanisms of power in the Soviet Union during the years when Stalin established his notorious dictatorship. Oleg V. Khlevniuk focuses on the top organ in Soviet Russia’s political hierarchy of the 1930s—the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party—and on the political and interpersonal dynamics that weakened its collective leadership and enabled Stalin’s rise.