Masterpieces And Dramas Of The Soviet Championships Volume Iii 19481953

The third volume of Sergey Voronkovs epic tale takes the reader on a historical journey through the late Stalinist period in the USSR. It covers in depth the five Soviet championships from 1948 to 1952 and the playoff match between Botvinnik and Taimanov in 1953 which concludes one month before Stalins death. Against a background of rampant antiSemitism a new wave of repressions and descent into the First Cold War in which chess was an important front the USSR captures the world chess crown and