Stalin

CONTENTS

Preface

The Seats of Stalin’s Power

1. BEFORE THE REVOLUTION

The Bulwarks of Stalin’s Power

2. IN LENIN’S SHADOW

A World of Reading and Contemplation

3. HIS REVOLUTION

Trepidation in the Inner Circle

4. TERROR AND IMPENDING WAR

Patient Number 1

5. STALIN AT WAR

Family

6. THE GENERALISSIMO

The Dictatorship Collapses

THE FUNERAL: THE VOZHD, THE SYSTEM, AND THE PEOPLE

Illustrations

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index