Sheila Fitzpatrick: The Team Without Stalin: "Collective Leadership" 1953-7

On November 23, 2015, Soviet historian Sheila Fitzpatrick (Professor of History at the University of Sydney and Distinguished Service Professor Emerita of the University of Chicago) spoke at the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia about her research on “The Team Without Stalin: ‘Collective Leadership’ 1953-7” and her new book "On Stalin’s Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics."

For an exceptionally eventful 25 years, Stalin worked closely with a team of political associates roughly equivalent in membership to the Politburo. Some regarded them simply as yes-men, incapable of ruling without Stalin. Yet when Stalin died in 1953, they presided as a “collective leadership” over a remarkably successful transition, not only maintaining stability but immediately embarking on a wide-ranging reform program. How was this possible? And what light do the actions of “Stalin’s team without Stalin” in the years 1953-7 throw on the dynamics of high politics before Stalin’s death?

Link to written event recap: http://jordanrussiacenter.org/event-recaps/soviet-historian-sheila-fitzpatrick-speaks-collective-leadership-stalins-death/#.WYIoP9PytOE

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