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Article: Cold Peace: Stalin and the Soviet Ruling Circle, 1945-1953.(Book review)
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- The Historian
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- September 22, 2005
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Cold Peace: Stalin and the Soviet Ruling Circle, 1945-1953. By Yoram Gorlizki and Oleg Khlevniuk. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 248. $35.00.)
Josef Stalin hated those "who are frightened of soiling themselves" (171). Anyone who was touched by Stalin's regime was soiled in some way. This reality is soberly and dispassionately dissected by Yoram Gorlizki and Oleg Khlevniuk in their study of late Stalinism.
Gorlizki and Khlevniuk base their study on an extensive use of government and party archives. The authors have assembled a telling mixture of papers that passed through Stalin's hands and his "lively correspondence with members of the ...