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| | Illustrations | xi |
| | Stalin's Family Tree | xv |
| | Maps | xcii |
| | Introduction and Ackhowledgements | xix |
| | List of Characters | xxiv |
| | Prologue : The Holiday Dinner : 8 November 1932 | 3 |
| | Pastscript | 651 |
| | Source Notes | 659 |
| | Select Bibliography | 743 |
| | Index | 757 |
| Part One. | That Wonderful Time : Stalin and Nadya, 1878-1932 | 25 |
| | 1. The Georgian and the Schoolgirl | 25 |
| | 2. The Kremlin Family | 38 |
| | 3. The Charmer | 44 |
| | 4. Famine and the Country Set : Stalin at the Weekend | 58 |
| | 5. Holiday and Hell : The Politburo at the Seaside | 71 |
| | 6. Trains Full of Corpses : Love, Death and Hysteria | 82 |
| | 7. Stalin the Intellectual | 93 |
| Part Two. | The Jolly Fellows : Stalin and Kirov, 1932-1934 | 105 |
| | 8. The Funeral | 105 |
| | 9. The Omnipotent Widower and His Loving Family : Sergo the Bolshevik Prince | 115 |
| | 10. Spoiled Victory : Lirov, the Plot and the Seventeenth Congress | 126 |
| | 11. Assassination of the Favourite | 132 |
| Part three. | On the Brink, 1934-1936 | 147 |
| | 12. "I'm Orphaned" : The Connoisseur of Funerals | 147 |
| | 13. A Secret Friendship : The Rose of Novgorod | 159 |
| | 14. The Dwarf Rises; Casanova Falls | 167 |
| | 15. The Tsar Rides the Metro | 175 |
| | 16. Take Your Partners; Mount Your Prisoners : The Show Trial | 184 |
| Part Four. | Slaughter : Yezhov the Poison Swarf, 1937-1938 | 197 |
| | 17. The Executioner : Beria's Poison and Bukharin's Dosage | 197 |
| | 18. Sergo : Death a "Perfect Bolshevik" | 210 |
| | 19. The Massacre of Generals, Fall of Yagoda and Death of a Mother | 219 |
| | 20. Blood Bath by Numbers | 228 |
| | 21. The Blackberry at Work and Play | 236 |
| | 22. Bloody Shirtsleeves : The Intimate Circleof Murder | 245 |
| | 23. Social Life in the Terror : The Wives and Children of the Magnates | 255 |
| Part Five. | Slaughter : Beria Arrives, 1938-1939 | 265 |
| | 24. Stalin's Jewesses and the Family in Danger | 265 |
| | 25. Beria and the Weariness of Hangmen | 273 |
| | 26. The Tragedy and Depravity of the Yezhovs | 280 |
| | 27. Death of the Stalin Family : A Strange Proposal and the Housekeeper | 287 |
| Part Six. | "The Great Game" : Hirler and Stalin, 1939-1941 | 301 |
| | 28. The Carve-Up of Europe : Molotov, Ribbentrop and Stalin's Jewish Question | 301 |
| | 29. The Murder of the Wives | 316 |
| | 30. Molotov Cocktails : The Winter War and Kulik's Wife | 326 |
| | 31. Molotov Meets Hitler : Brinkmanship and Delusion | 337 |
| | 32. The Countdown : 22 June 1941 | 354 |
| Part Seven. | War : The Bungling Genius, 1941-1942 | 363 |
| | 33. Optimism and Breakdown | 363 |
| | 34. "Ferocious as a Dog" : Zhdanow and the Siege of Leningrad | 384 |
| | 35. "Can You Hold Moscow?" | 394 |
| | 36. Molotov in London, Mekhlis in the Crimea, Khrushchev in Collapse | 409 |
| | 37. Churchill Visits Stalin : Marlborough vs. Wellington | 418 |
| | 38. Stalingrad and the Caucasus : beria and Kaganovich at War | 424 |
| Part Eight. | War : The Triuphant Genius, 1942-1945 | 435 |
| | 39. The Supremo of Stalingrad | 435 |
| | 40. Sons and Daughters : Stalin's and the Politburo's Children at War | 445 |
| | 41. Stalin's Song Contest | 456 |
| | 42. teheran : Roosevelt and Stalin | 463 |
| | 43. The Swaggering Congueror : Yalta and Berlin | 479 |
| Part Nine. | The Dangerous Game of Succession, 1945-1949 | 491 |
| | 44. The Bomb | 491 |
| | 45. Beria : Potentate, Husband, Father, Lover, Killer, Rapist | 502 |
| | 46. A Night in the Nosturnal Life of Uoseph Vissarionovich : Tyranny by Movies and Dinners | 512 |
| | 47. Molotov's Chance : "You'll Do Anything When You're Drunk!" | 532 |
| | 48. Zhdanov the Heir and Abakumov's Bloody Carpet | 538 |
| | 49. The Eclipse of Zhukov and the Looters of Europe : The Imperial Elite | 545 |
| | 50. "The Zionists Have Pulled One Over You!" | 558 |
| | 51. A Lonely Old Man on Holiday | 563 |
| | 52. Two Strange Deaths : The Yiddish Actor and the Heir Apparent | 573 |
| Part Ten. | The Lame Tiger, 1949-1953 | 585 |
| | 53. Mrs. Molotov's Arrest | 585 |
| | 54. Murder and Marriage : The Leningrad Case | 592 |
| | 55. Mao, Stalin's Birthday and the Korean War | 603 |
| | 56. The Midget and the Killer Doctors : Beat, Beat and Beat Again! | 612 |
| | 57. Blind Kittens and Hippopotamuses : The Destruction of the Old Guard | 626 |
| | 58. "I Did Him In!" : The Patient and His Trembling Doctors | 638 |