Stalin: An Unknown Portrait

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This 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 In addition to the interviews and hitherto unpublished correspondence between Stalin, Molotov, Voroshilov, Mikoyan, Zhdanov and others, the book also contains a fascinating selection from a private collection of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. STALIN STALIN AN UNKNOWN PORTRAIT By Miklôs Kun Table of Contents Acknowledgements In Stalin’s Shadow PARTI 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 Kliment Voroshilov Everyday Life in the Underground Movement Feliks Dzerzhinsky Why Learn Foreign Languages? Wanted: A Theoretician Nikolai Bukharin The Last Period in Exile PART II Kira Alliluyeva The Alliluyev Grandparents The Hours of Relaxation Nadezhda Alliluyeva The Rulers in Oriental Dress Competition for the Widowed Stalin Lazar Kaganovich All the Soviet World is a Stage Fading Group Pictures Aleksei Tolstoy, the Soviet Count Expulsion from Paradise The Cars of the Kremlin Polina Zhemchuzhina Vyacheslav Molotov Anastas Mikoyan Secretaries in All Shapes and Sizes Avel Yenukidze A Correspondance Discovered The Threat of War The M Ribbentrop Pact Yakov Dzhugashvili “Red Vaska” The Young General in Prison Anna Alliluyeva Organized Famine in the Ukraine Fyodor Alliluyev Inspecting New Weaponry Pavel Alliluyev The Destruction of the Svanidze Family Sergo Ordzhonikidze False Medical Reports Yevgenia Alliluyeva Vladimir Prison Years “He was an Man, the Wretch” The Twilight of the Dictator