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.
The Stalin-Kaganovich Correspondence, 1931-36 (Annals of Communism Series) Ebook
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File Size: 16900 KB
Print Length: 476 pages
Publisher: Yale University Press (June 10, 2003)
Publication Date: June 10, 2003
Language: English
