Kun, Miklós, 1946-

Stalin an unknown portrait / [electronic resource] : by Miklós Kun. - Budapest ; Central European University Press, 2003. - xv, 471 p. : ill., ports. ; 29 cm. - ACLS Humanities E-Book. .

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

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.

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Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953.

--Soviet Union--Biography.


Soviet Union--Politics and government--1917-1936.
Soviet Union--Politics and government--1936-1953.

Heads of state