She vividly describes how these dedicated comrades-in-arms not only worked closely with Stalin, but also constituted his social circle. Drawing on extensive original research, Sheila Fitzpatrick provides the first in-depth account of this inner circle and their families. On Stalin's Team overturns this view, revealing that behind Stalin was a group of loyal men who formed a remarkably effective team with him from the late 1920s until his death in 1953. The first chronicle of Stalin's inner political and social circle-from a leading Soviet historian Stalin was the unchallenged dictator of the Soviet Union for so long that most historians have dismissed the officials surrounding him as mere yes-men and political window dressing.
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