‘All my own relatives are in prison too!’
Yoram Gorlizki: Stalin’s Gang, 11 August 2016
On Stalin’s Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics
by Sheila Fitzpatrick.
Princeton, 384 pp., £24.95, September 2015,978 0 691 14533 4 Show More
by Sheila Fitzpatrick.
Princeton, 384 pp., £24.95, September 2015,
“... But the arrest that was to have the most lasting impact on Molotov was that of his closest friend, Alexander Arosev, who was apprehended in July 1937 and executed six months later. Molotov’s ‘ability to take it’ contrasts with that of another member of the Stalin group, Ordzhonikidze, who after the execution of his deputy Piatakov, and on the eve of an ... ”