The death of Stalin
Title:
The death of Stalin
Author:
Uniform Title:
Mort de Staline. English
ISBN:
9781785863400
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
119 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
General Note:
Originally published in French in 2012 by Dargaud.
Although inspired by real events, this book is nonetheless a work of fiction: artistic license has been used to construct a story from historical evidence that was at best patchy, at times partial, and often contradictory. --page [7]
Contents:
The death of Stalin, chapter 1: agony -- The death of Stalin, chapter 2: funeral.
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Summary:
On March 1, 1953, the Secretary General of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union -- Joseph Stalin -- had a severe stroke. A doctor could not be called until the Central Committee had convened, voted, and agreed on which doctor to use, a task made more complex by the fact that Stalin had just ordered the deaths of many of the Soviet Union's leading physicians. And so began the bureaucratic merry-go-round that became the intense and underhanded struggle for control of a nation. --
Language Note:
ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF FRENCH ORIGINAL.
