Stalin : an unknown portrait /
Kun, Miklós,1946-
Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press,
2003.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The childhood of Soso -- Why Soso Dzhugashvili dropped out of the seminar -- "Comrade Koba" enters the scene -- The past rewritten -- Why Stalin was called a "mail-coach robber" -- Escape and love -- Everyday life in the underground movement -- Why learn foreign languages? -- Wanted, a theoretician -- The last period in exile -- Kira Alliluyeva -- The Alliluyev grandparents -- Nadezhda Alliluyeva -- Competition of the widowed Stalin -- All the Soviet world is a stage -- Aleksey Tolstoy, the Soviet count -- Expulsion from paradise -- Polina Zhemchuzhina -- Anastas Mikoyan -- Abel Yenukidze -- The "lost" letters -- The threat of war -- Yakov Dzhugashvili -- "Red Vaska" -- The young general in prison -- Anna Alliliyeva -- Fyodor Alliluyev -- Pavel Alliluyev -- The destruction of the Svanidze family -- False medical reports -- Yevgeniya Alliluyeva -- Vladimir prison years -- "He was an evil man, the wretch" -- The twilight of the dictator.
Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953.
Heads of state