Stalin's Last Crime
Subtitle: The Plot Against the Jewish Doctors, 1948-1953
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: February 17, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780060933104
First sentence: On August 31, 1948, at about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, Andrei Aleksandrovich Zhdanov, a powerful member of Stalin's Politburo, "unexpectedly" died in Valdai, a health resort for members of the Soviet political elite, about two and a half hours by car to the north and west of Moscow, on the road to Leningrad.