The first English-language biography of Lazar Kaganovich, one of Stalins leading deputies, Iron Lazar investigates the life of a man of key importance to the shaping of the Stalinist state. With its insight into the political and personal relations of the Stalin group, as well a…
Président de l'Institut et des Cahiers Léon Trotsky, l'auteur a retrouvé de considérables archives inédites.
Révolutionnaire, chef de guerre, mais aussi écrivain brillant, amoureux des femmes, juif en conflit avec ses racines, icône puis bouc émissaire et victime traquée, Léon Trotski a vécu l'une des vies les plus extraordinaires qui soient. Fondateur de l'Armée rouge, opposant à son …
This is the first comprehensive biography of Lavrentii Beria, Stalin's notorious police chief and for many years his most powerful lieutenant. Beria has long symbolized all the evils of Stalinism, haunting the public imagination both in the West and in the former Soviet Union. Y…
This is the first comprehensive biography of Lavrentii Beria, Stalin's notorious police chief and for many years his most powerful lieutenant. Beria has long symbolized all the evils of Stalinism, haunting the public imagination both in the West and in the former Soviet Union. Y…
"In 1934 Andrei Zhdanov was promoted to the post of secretary of the Communist Party's Central Committee in Moscow and entered the inner circle of Stalin's partners. Notable for his involvement in implementing the artificial crisis of the Great Terror in Moscow and Leningrad, Zh…
In The Life and Times of Andrei Zhdanov, 1896-1948 Kees Boterbloem offers the first full-length biography of the man once believed to be a likely candidate to succeed Josef Stalin. In so doing he provides new insights into the Soviet political system and the question of how much…
