Sheila Fitzpatrick: Stalins Team With and Without Stalin
CEU History Department, public lecture, Gellner room October 14/2015 · She has a research on Soviet DPs who went to Australia after WWII! · The members of this team were more than Stalin’s “yes-men” · Khrushchev got rid of the other members in 1957 · Berija and Khrushchev were the only members of the dozen not interested in collective leadership, but rather in their own individual leadership · Over a million Gulag inmates released in a short time after Stalin’s death, as the team released all political inmates · Mrs. Molotova brought back from her Stalinist exile in Kazakhstan and reportedly lived happily ever after with Molotov – strange by-way of Soviet history… · Release of the accused doctors of the doctors’ plot within 3 weeks after Stalin’s death, moreover news about this in the press- unpopular in public opinion, Stalin’s death seemed to confirm the accusation that the Jewish doctors had kill