In Stalin's shadow : the career of "Sergo" Ordzhonikidze / Oleg V. Khlevniuk ; edited with an introduction by Donald J. Raleigh with the assistance of Kathy S. Transchel ; translated by David J. Nordlander.

In the voluminous secret history of the 1930s, one episode that still puzzles researchers is the death in 1937 of one of Stalin's key allies - his fellow Georgian, G.K. Ordzhonikidze. Whether he took his own life or, like Kirov, was murdered, the case of Ordzhonikidze intersects several long-de...

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