Stalin: An Unknown Portrait

by Mikl s Kun, Eotvaos Lorand University Budapest, Rachel Hideg (Translator), Miklos Bodoczky (Translator)

Overview

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 In addition to the interviews and hitherto unpublished correspondence between Stalin, Molotov, Voroshilov, Mikoyan, Zhdanov and others, the book also contains a fascinating collection of over 300 photos of Stalin,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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789639241190
Publisher:	Central European University Press
Publication date:	02/01/2003
Pages:	396
Product dimensions:	8.66(w) x 11.22(h) x (d)

About the Author

Miklós Kun is Professor of History at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.

Table of Contents

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"