The first English-language biography of Lazar Kaganovich, one of Stalin's leading deputies, 'Iron Lazar' investigates the life of a man of key importance to the shaping of the Stalinist state. With its insight into the political and personal relations of the Stalin group, as well as its examination of this aspiring politician's policy-making role during the Stalinist regime, 'Iron Lazar' investigates the previously undocumented life of Lazar Kaganovich, the last surviving member of the Stalin government and one-time heir apparent to the Soviet Union. | Iron Lazar by E. A. Rees, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters