Iron Lazar: A Political Biography of Lazar Kaganovich

by E.A. Rees

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.

Genres: Soviet Union, History, Biography

390 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 2011

About the author

Dr. E.A. Rees is a British academic who is currently Professor of East European History at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He is a specialist in Russian history and has published widely in the field.

After studying at the University of York (York, U.K.), he completed his PhD at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Birmingham (Edgbaston, U.K.). He then taught political science at the University of Keele (Newcastle-under-Lyme, U.K.), and Russian/Soviet history at the University of Birmingham.