INTRODUCTION; PART I: RECONSTRUCTION; 1. A RETURN TO ORDER; 2. STATE BUILDING STALIN-STYLE; PART II: STALIN'S SHIFT; 3. THE POLITBURO'S LAST PURGE; 4. PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE: COLLECTIVE LEADERSHIP AND STALINIST CONTROL; PART III: STALIN'S LEGACY; 5. AWAKENING TO CRISIS; 6. STALIN'S LAST STRUGGLE; CONCLUSION
Yoram Gorlizki teaches Russian politics and history at the University of Manchester, where he is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Government, and Oleg Khlevniuk is a Senior Research Fellow at the State Archive of the Russian Federation.
This is a valuable account of a period one hopes will never be seen again in Russia. David Winnick, Tribune Cold Peace is a masterful analysis of high politics around Stalin in the least known period of his autocracy. Dark, grim, subtle, crackling with the electricity of Stalin's seething personality and constant manouvreing, this brilliant book delivers readable narrative history, superb archival research and a splendid analysis of that terrifying character: it destroys myths with the same facility that it unveils new fascinations. Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Spectator ... the authors are highly distinguished -- Yoram Gorlizki is one of the best of the new British generation of Soviet specialists; the outstanding Oleg Khlevniuk is now the pre-eminent Russian historian of the Stalin period. Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Spectator In this tour de force, the authors have cast light on the most mysterious years of Stalin's rule and made them their own. Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Spectator Never do [the authors] stoop for effect or melodrama but their analysis is always urbane and worldly while utterly at home in the nightmarish world of Stalin's mind and the drab insanity of the high bureaucracy. Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Spectator
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