The first full-length biography of the man once believed to be a likely candidate to succeed Josef Stalin Zhdanov was Stalin's main assistant in both the massive bureaucracy of the Communist Party and the attempt to restore ideological orthodoxy In The Life and Times of Andrei Zhdanov, 1896-1948 Kees Boterbloem offers the first full-length biography of the man once believed to be a likely candidate to succeed Josef Stalin. In so doing he provides new insights into the Soviet political system and the question of how much power was wielded by Stalin's lieutenants. In 1934 Andrei Zhdanov was...