| Illustrations |
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| Stalin's Family Tree |
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| Maps |
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| Introduction and Acknowledgements xix |
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| List of Characters |
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| Prologue: The Holiday Dinner: 8 November 1932 |
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| PART ONE THAT WONDERFUL TIME: STALIN AND NADYA, 1878-1932 |
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1. The Georgian and the Schoolgirl |
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25 | (13) |
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38 | (6) |
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44 | (14) |
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4. Famine and the Country Set: Stalin at the Weekend |
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58 | (13) |
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5. Holidays and Hell: The Politburo at the Seaside |
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71 | (11) |
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6. Trains Full of Corpses: Love, Death and Hysteria |
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82 | (11) |
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7. Stalin the Intellectual |
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93 | (12) |
| PART TWO THE JOLLY FELLOWS: STALIN AND KIROV, 1932-1934 |
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105 | (10) |
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9. The Omnipotent Widower and His Loving Family: Sergo the Bolshevik Prince |
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115 | (11) |
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10. Spoiled Victory: Kirov, the Plot and the Seventeenth Congress |
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126 | (6) |
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11. Assassination of the Favourite |
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132 | (15) |
| PART THREE ON THE BRINK, 1934-1936 |
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12. "I'm Orphaned": The Connoisseur of Funerals |
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147 | (12) |
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13. A Secret Friendship: The Rose of Novgorod |
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159 | (8) |
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14. The Dwarf Rises; Casanova Falls |
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167 | (8) |
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15. The Tsar Rides the Metro |
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175 | (9) |
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16. Take Your Partners; Mount Your Prisoners: The Show Trial |
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184 | (13) |
| PART FOUR SLAUGHTER: YEZHOV THE POISON DWARF, 1937-1938 |
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17. The Executioner: Beria's Poison and Bukharin's Dosage |
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197 | (13) |
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18. Sergo: Death of a "Perfect Bolshevik" |
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210 | (9) |
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19. The Massacre of Generals, Fall of Yagoda and Death of a Mother |
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219 | (9) |
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20. Blood Bath by Numbers |
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228 | (8) |
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21. The Blackberry at Work and Play |
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236 | (9) |
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22. Bloody Shirtsleeves: The Intimate Circle of Murder |
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245 | (10) |
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23. Social Life in the Terror: The Wives and Children of the Magnates |
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255 | (10) |
| PART FIVE SLAUGHTER: BERIA ARRIVES, 1938-1939 |
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24. Stalin's Jewesses and the Family in Danger |
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265 | (8) |
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25. Beria and the Weariness of Hangmen |
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273 | (7) |
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26. The Tragedy and Depravity of the Yezhovs |
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280 | (7) |
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27. Death of the Stalin Family: A Strange Proposal and the Housekeeper |
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287 | (14) |
| PART SIX "THE GREAT GAME": HITLER AND STALIN, 1939-1941 |
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28. The Carve-Up of Europe: Molotov, Ribbentrop and Stalin's Jewish Question |
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301 | (15) |
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29. The Murder of the Wives |
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316 | (10) |
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30. Molotov Cocktails: The Winter War and Kulik's Wife |
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326 | (11) |
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31. Molotov Meets Hitler: Brinkmanship and Delusion |
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337 | (17) |
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32. Countdown: 22 June 1941 |
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354 | (9) |
| PART SEVEN WAR: THE BUNGLING GENIUS, 1941-1942 |
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33. Optimism and Breakdown |
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363 | (21) |
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34. Ferocious as a Dog": Zhdanov and the Siege of Leningrad |
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384 | (10) |
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35. "Can You Hold Moscow?" |
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394 | (15) |
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36. Molotov in London, Mekhlis in the Crimea, Khrushchev in Collapse |
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409 | (9) |
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37. Churchill Visits Stalin: Marlborough vs. Wellington |
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418 | (6) |
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38. Stalingrad and the Caucasus: Beria, old Kaganovich at War |
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424 | (11) |
| PART EIGHT WAR: THE TRIUMPHANT GENIUS, 1942-1945 |
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39. The Supremo of Stalingrad |
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435 | (10) |
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40. Sons and Daughters: Stalin's and the Politburo's Children at War |
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445 | (11) |
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41. Stalin's Song Contest |
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456 | (7) |
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42. Teheran: Roosevelt and Stalin |
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463 | (16) |
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43. The Swaggering Conqueror: Yalta and Berlin |
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479 | (12) |
| PART NINE THE DANGEROUS GAME OF SUCCESSION, 1945-1949 |
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491 | (11) |
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45. Beria: Potentate, Husband, Father, Lover, Killer, Rapist |
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502 | (10) |
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46. A Night in the Nocturnal Life of Joseph Vissarionovich: Tyranny by Movies and Dinners |
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512 | (20) |
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47. Molotov's Chance: "You'll Do Anything When You're Drunk!" |
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532 | (6) |
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48. Zhdanov the Heir and Abakumov's Bloody Carpet |
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538 | (7) |
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49. The Eclipse of Zhukov and the Looters of Europe: The Imperial Elite |
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545 | (13) |
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50. "The Zionists Have Pulled One Over You!" |
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558 | (5) |
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51. A Lonely Old Man on Holiday |
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563 | (10) |
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52. Two Strange Deaths: The Yiddish Actor and the Heir Apparent |
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573 | (12) |
| PART TEN THE LAME TIGER, 1949-1953 |
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53. Mrs. Molotov's Arrest |
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585 | (7) |
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54. Murder and Marriage: The Leningrad Case |
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592 | (11) |
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55. Mao, Stalin's Birthday and the Korean War |
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603 | (9) |
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56. The Midget and the Killer Doctors: Beat, Beat and Beat Again! |
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612 | (14) |
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57. Blind Kittens and Hippopotamuses: The Destruction of the Old Guard |
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626 | (12) |
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58. "I Did Him In!": The Patient and His Trembling Doctors |
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638 | (13) |
| Postscript |
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651 | (8) |
| Source Notes |
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659 | (84) |
| Select Bibliography |
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743 | (14) |
| Index |
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