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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453468303321

Autore

Jansen Marc

Titolo

Stalin's loyal executioner : People's Commissar Nikolai Ezhov, 1895-1940 / / Marc Jansen and Nikita Petrov

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California : , : Hoover Institution Press, , 2002

ISBN

0-8179-2908-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Collana

Hoover Institution Press publication ; ; no. 502

Altri autori (Persone)

PetrovN. V (Nikita Vasilʹevich)

Disciplina

363.28/3/092

B

Soggetti

Political purges - Soviet Union - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-261) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover ; Title Page ; Half Title ; Copyright ; Contents ; List of Illustrations ; Preface; Chapter 1: Early Career ; Chapter 2: Directing the Purges and Supervising the NKVD ; Chapter 3: State Security Chief ; Chapter 4: The Great Terror ; Chapter 5: Apogee ; Chapter 6: Decline ; Chapter 7: Fall ; Chapter 8: Enemy of the People ; Chapter 9: Concluding Remarks ; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Stalin's Loyal Executioner, drawn from still-classified Soviet archives, chronicles the meteoric and bloody career of Nikolai Ezhov, NKVD leader and security chief, revealing the tragic scope of communist terrorism under Joseph Stalin.