{"product_id":"on-stalins-team-by-sheila-fitzpatrick-9780522868913","title":"On Stalin's Team","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn Stalin's Team\u003c\/em\u003e overturns the common view that Joseph Stalin's officials were merely yes-men, revealing instead that behind Stalin was a group of a dozen or so loyal and competent men who formed a remarkably effective team. This team was active from the late 1920s until Stalin's death in 1953, when they accomplished a brilliant transition as a reforming 'collective leadership'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on extensive original research, Sheila Fitzpatrick provides the first in-depth account of Stalin's dedicated comrades-in-arms, who not only worked closely with their leader but also constituted his social circle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKey team members included Molotov, Stalin's number-two man; the military leader Voroshilov; the charismatic and entrepreneurial Ordzhonikidze; the wily security chief Beria; and the deceptively simple Khrushchev, who ultimately disbanded the team in 1957 to become the sole leader of the Soviet Union.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46343621083372,"sku":"9780522868913","price":63.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/3823673482374.jpg?v=1744000444","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/on-stalins-team-by-sheila-fitzpatrick-9780522868913","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}