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La Mort de Staline (The Death of Stalin)

by Fabien Nury, Thierry Robin

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  • Death of Stalin (1953)
  • Stalinist purges

A black comedy of the real power struggle in the Politburo after Stalin's stroke in March 1953: Beria, Khrushchev, Malenkov and Molotov manoeuvring around the dying dictator.

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La Mort de Staline (The Death of Stalin)

On March 1, 1953, the Secretary General of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union -- Joseph Stalin -- had a severe stroke. A doctor could not be called until the Central Committee had convened, voted, and agreed on which doctor to use, a task made more complex by the fact that Stalin had just ordered the deaths of many of the Soviet Union's leading physicians. And so began the bureaucratic merry-go-round that became the intense and underhanded struggle for control of a nation. La Mort de Staline is a series of French satirical-biographical graphic novels. The two volumes were created by artist Thierry Robin and writer Fabien Nury, and published in October 2010 and May 2012 by Dargaud.

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