Measures 5" x 8", in leatherette-wrapped hard cover, published by the Military Publishing House at the Military Ministry of the USSR, Moscow. 99 pp., circulation unknown. In the book, Voroshilov extolls Stalin's role in creating and leading the Red Army during the Civil War, building it up in the period between the Civil War and WW2, and the genius of his military leadership during the Great Patriotic War.

In excellent, outstanding condition. The cover shows minimal wear to the head and foot of the spine and to the corners, barely noticeable and not detractive. The internal pages

Measures 5" x 8", in leatherette-wrapped hard cover, published by the Military Publishing House at the Military Ministry of the USSR, Moscow. 99 pp., circulation unknown. In the book, Voroshilov extolls Stalin's role in creating and leading the Red Army during the Civil War, building it up in the period between the Civil War and WW2, and the genius of his military leadership during the Great Patriotic War.

In excellent, outstanding condition. The cover shows minimal wear to the head and foot of the spine and to the corners, barely noticeable and not detractive. The internal pages are all in place and clean, showing just an occasional checkmark or notation in pencil.

Kliment Voroshilov (Климент Ефремович Ворошилов, 1881 - 1969) was a prominent Soviet military officer, one of the first five Marshals of the Soviet Union, People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR (1925-40), member of the Politburo (1926), Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Soviet Union (1953-60), a revolutionary since the 1890s, and personal friend of Stalin's with whom he first intersected in 1906 where he and Stalin shared a room in Stockholm during the IV Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party. A complex figure in the top echelon of Soviet politics who seemed to be on the side of honesty and sincere belief in the Communist ideals but at the same time he personally signed 185 documented execution lists during the Great Purge of the 1930s, fourth after Stalin, Molotov, and Kaganovich. Despite occasional disagreements with Stalin, Voroshilov survived the Great Purge, survived his failure as Commander of the Leningrad Front to prevent encirclement and blockade of Leningrad in WW2, survived his fall from power during Khrushchev's reign to be pulled back and given a sinecure political post by Brezhnev. He died in 1969 of natural causes and was buried in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis between the Lenin Mausoleum and the Kremlin Wall.

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