Stuart Kahan

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Stuart Kahan is an American journalist and author of The Wolf of the Kremlin: The First Biography of L.M. Kaganovich, the Soviet Union's Architect of Fear (William Morrow & Co, October 1987) about Lazar Kaganovich, a central player in the regime of Joseph Stalin.

In the book, Kahan made a series of claims about Kaganovich's working relationship with Joseph Stalin and his activities during the Ukrainian famine, and claimed to be the long-lost nephew of Kaganovich. Upon publication of the book in Russia, a statement was released by surviving members of the Kaganovich family, which disputed all of these claims and questioned a number of Kahan's factual assertions.