Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Archival Annotation, Foreign Terms, Transcription, and Glossary ix
5. Preface xxi
6. Stalin’s Accomplice 3
7. Youth, 1896–1918¹ 11
8. Rise of a Bolshevik Chieftain, 1918–1924 27
9. The Proconsul of Nizhnii Novgorod, 1924–1929 51
10. The Great Turn, 1929–1934 79
11. Moscow and Leningrad, 1934–1936 105
12. Purification, 1937–1939 145
13. Dragon’s Teeth, 1939–1941 183
14. Dragon Harvest, 1941–1945 225
15. The Prodigal Son Returns, 1945–1946 253
16. The Selfless Fighter Succumbs, 1947–1948 289
17. Myths, the Man, and a Legacy in Limbo 335
18. Notes 345
19. Bibliography 525
20. Index 565