They were dedicated to the revolution and to Stalin, and they devoted their lives to both. Stalin followed a policy of “dosage”: divide and rule, fostering distrust, competition, and intrigue among his team. None were highly educated or especially talented, and they were certainly not cosmopolitan intellectuals like the exiled Trotsky, Stalin’s enduring bugbear. Aside from Vyacheslav Molotov, few are familiar to Westerners, which will leave some readers trying to figure out who’s who. The social and political lives of the members of “Stalin’s team” were permanently intertwined with his, including the required drunken all-nighters. of Sydney A Spy in the Archives: A Memoir of Cold War Russia, 2013, etc.) puts faces to the names of Stalin’s “cabinet,” examining their histories, families, and devotion to the dictator.
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