| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.4

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Book Review

Europe: Early Modern and Modern

Kees Boterbloem. The Life and Times of Andrei Zhdanov, 1896–1948. Ithaca, N.Y.: McGill-Queen's University Press. 2004. Pp. xxiv, 593. $44.95.

Kees Boterbloem's book traces Andrei Zhdanov's rise to one of Joseph Stalin's most trusted deputies by the late 1930s, carefully examining Zhdanov's role in the great purges, in the 1939 war with Finland, and the Nazi-Soviet Pact. In addition to tracing Zhdanov's life and role, the book provides a detailed history of government decision making during much of the Soviet period, based on impressive study of post-Soviet Russian histories, Western writings, and Soviet archives now available. Boterbloem particularly analyzes records of visits to Stalin's office and leadership meetings. The book has about 350 pages of text and almost 200 pages of footnotes, with about forty pages of bibliography.

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