Swarthout’s Reviews > On Stalin's Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics > Status Update
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"Stalin personally edited Zhdanov’s speech to the Leningrad writers and was uncharacteristically warm in his praise of the text, a document of interest, among other things, for its thoughtful inclusion of staging instructions (“stormy applause” at appropriate moments)."
— Jan 18, 2026 10:24AM
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"Stalin was an indefatigable reader, with an estimated norm of five hundred pages a day, covering history, sociology, economics, and Russian literature—classical and contemporary—as well as contemporary affairs".
— Jan 17, 2026 05:21AM
