Beria : Stalin's First Lieutenant /

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This is the first comprehensive biography of Lavrentii Beria, Stalin's notorious police chief and for many years his most powerful lieutenant. Beria has long symbolized all the evils of Stalinism, haunting the public imagination both in the West and in the former Soviet Union. Yet because his p...

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Autor principal: Knight, Amy (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Temas:
Internal security > Soviet Union.
Politicians > Soviet Union > Biography.
HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
Armenian Communist Party.
Belorussia.
Brezhnev, Leonid.
Chechen deportees.
Czechoslovakia.
Djilas, Milovan.
East German crisis.
Fitin, P. M.
Great Soviet Encyclopedia.
Harriman, Averell.
Iagoda, Genrikh.
Jewish Antifascist Committee.
Karanadze, Grigorii.
Kvantaliani, E. A.
Lordkipanidze, Tite.
Mdivani, Budu.
Nicolaevsky, Boris.
OGPU.
Persia.
Social Democrats.
World War I.
agriculture.
agro-towns.
espionage.
intelligentsia.
liberalization.
military industries.
nuclear program.
repatriation.
terrorism.
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  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • CHRONOLOGY OF BERIA'S LIFE
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Chapter One. EARLY LIFE AND CAREER
  • Chapter Two. SERVICE IN THE GEORGIAN POLITICAL POLICE
  • Chapter 3. LEADER OF GEORGIA AND TRANSCAUCASIA: 1931-1936
  • Chapter Four. THE PURGES IN GEORGIA
  • Chapter Five. MASTER OF THE LUBIANKA
  • Chapter Six. THE WAR YEARS
  • Chapter Seven. KREMLIN POLITICS AFTER THE WAR
  • Chapter Eight. BERIA UNDER FIRE: 1950-1953
  • Chapter Nine. THE DOWNFALL OF BERIA
  • Chapter Ten. THE AFTERMATH
  • Chapter Eleven. BERIA RECONSIDERED
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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