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Record Nr.

UNISA996248203803316

Autore

Kun Miklós <1946->

Titolo

Stalin : an unknown portrait / / by Miklós Kun

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Budapest ; ; New York, : Central European University Press, 2003

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 471 p. ) : ill., ports. ;

Disciplina

947.084/2/092

Soggetti

Heads of state - Soviet Union

Regions & Countries - Europe

History & Archaeology

Russia & Former Soviet Republics

Soviet Union Politics and government 1917-1936

Soviet Union Politics and government 1936-1953

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 459-[465]) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The childhood of Soso -- Why Soso Dzhugashvili dropped out of the seminary -- "Comrade Koba" enters the scene -- The past rewritten -- Why Stalin was called a "mail-coach robber" -- Escape and love -- Everyday life in the underground movement -- Why learn foreign languages? -- Wanted, a theoretician -- The last period in exile -- Kira Alliluyeva -- The Alliluyev grandparents -- Nadezhda Alliluyeva -- Competition for the widowed Stalin -- All the Soviet world is a stage -- Aleksei Tolstoy, the Soviet count -- Expulsion from paradise -- Polina Zhemchuzhina -- Anastas Mikoyan -- Avel Yenukidze -- A correspondence discovered -- The threat of war -- Yakov Dzhugashvili -- "Red Vaska" -- The young general in prison -- Anna Alliliyeva -- Fyodor Alliluyev -- Pavel Alliluyev -- The destruction of the Svanidze family -- False medical reports -- Yevgenia Alliluyeva -- Vladimir prison years -- "He was an evil man, the wretch" -- The twilight of the dictator.