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During the war Stalin unremittingly wielded the tyrannical powers which he had acquired in the previous decade. But he partly relinquished them: in the first eighteen months of war he learned that the Soviet Army would win more battles if Zhukov took the military decisions.
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F. Chuev, Sto sorok besed s Molotovym (1991), p. 297.
K. Simonov, Glazami cheloveka moego pokoleniya: razmyshleniya o L V. Staline pp. 240–1; and see Shelepin’s imprecise account in Neizvestnaya Rossiya XX vek vol. 1 (1992), p. 275. The proceedings of this plenum have not been available.
See for example R. Medvedev, Khrushchev (Oxford, 1982), chapter 7.
S. N. Khrushchev, Pensioner soyuznogo znacheniya (1991); A. G. Malenkov, O moem ottse — Georgii Malenkov (1992); S. L. Beriya, Moi otets — Lavrentii Beriya (1994).
A. Knight, Beria: Stalin’s First Lieutenant (Princeton, 1993), pp. 183–94.
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Davies, R.W. (1997). Stalin’s Entourage at the End. In: Soviet History in the Yeltsin Era. Studies in Russian and East European History and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25420-0_17
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