LEADER 03479nam 2200625 a 450 001 9910808921803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-72203-0 010 $a9786611722036 010 $a0-300-12830-4 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300128307 035 $a(CKB)1000000000472031 035 $a(EBL)3420014 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000250469 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11194221 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000250469 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10231730 035 $a(PQKB)10880285 035 $a(DE-B1597)485360 035 $a(OCoLC)1059278385 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300128307 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420014 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10170040 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL172203 035 $a(OCoLC)923589886 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420014 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000472031 100 $a20021218d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Stalin-Kaganovich correspondence, 1931-36 /$fcompiled and edited by R.W. Davies ... [et al.] ; Russian documents translated by Steven Shabad 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (476 p.) 225 1 $aAnnals of Communism 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-300-09367-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tAcknowledgments --$tA Note on Soviet Administrative Structure --$tIntroduction --$tLazar Kaganovich: The Career of a Stalinist Commissar --$t1931 --$t1932 --$t1933 --$t1934 --$t1935 --$t1936 --$tAppendix --$tGlossary of Terms and Abbreviations --$tBrief Biographies --$tIndex 330 $aFrom 1931 to 1936, Stalin vacationed at his Black Sea residence for two to three months each year. While away from Moscow, he relied on correspondence with his subordinates to receive information, watch over the work of the Politburo and the government, give orders, and express his opinions. This book publishes for the first time translations of 177 handwritten letters and coded telegrams exchanged during this period between Stalin and his most highly trusted deputy, Lazar Kaganovich. The unique and revealing collection of letters-all previously classified top secret-provides a dramatic account of the mainsprings of Soviet policy while Stalin was consolidating his position as personal dictator. The correspondence records his positions on major internal and foreign affairs decisions and reveals his opinions about fellow members of the Politburo and other senior figures. Written during the years of agricultural collectivization, forced industrialization, famine, repression, and Soviet rearmament in the face of threats from Germany and Japan, these letters constitute an unsurpassed historical resource for all students of the Stalin regime and Soviet history. 410 0$aAnnals of Communism. 607 $aSoviet Union$xPolitics and government$y1917-1936$vSources 676 $a947.084/2 700 $aStalin$b Joseph$f1879-1953.$0315795 701 $aKaganovich$b L. M$g(Lazar Moiseevich),$f1893-1991.$01710710 701 $aDavies$b R. W$g(Robert William),$f1925-$01762276 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808921803321 996 $aThe Stalin-Kaganovich correspondence, 1931-36$94202089 997 $aUNINA