Beria : Stalin's first lieutenant / Amy Knight.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1993.Description: xvi, 312 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0691032572 :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 947.084/2/092 B 20
LOC classification:
  • DK 268.B384 K58 1993
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Contents:
Chapter one: early life and career -- Chapter two: service in the Georgian political police -- Chapter three: Leader of Georgia and Transcaucasia: 1931-1936 -- Chapter four: the purges in Georgia -- Chapter five: masters 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.
Summary: "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 political opponents expunged his name from public memory after his dramatic arrest and execution in 1953, little has been known about his long and tumultuous career. Now, drawing on sources made available since glasnost, Amy Knight describes in chilling detail the story of Beria's climb to the top of the Stalinist system, his complex relationship with Stalin, and his bitter struggle with Khrushchev after Stalin's death." -- from the dust jacket.
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BOOKS BOOKS Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library General Stacks DK 268.B384 K58 1993 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not For Loan NPML20060012
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DK 254 .T6 E3 1925 Leon Trotsky : the portrait of a youth / DK 254 .T6 W88 1972 Trotsky : a documentary / DK 254 .Y3 A35 1939 Over the divide : impersonal record of personal experiences / DK 268.B384 K58 1993 Beria : Stalin's first lieutenant / DK 268.B73 A33 1972 The path of valour / DK 268 .L5 S44 1990 Maxim Litvinov / DK 268 .S75 A267 1952 v.1 Works : Volume I.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-294) and index.

Chapter one: early life and career -- Chapter two: service in the Georgian political police -- Chapter three: Leader of Georgia and Transcaucasia: 1931-1936 -- Chapter four: the purges in Georgia -- Chapter five: masters 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.

"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 political opponents expunged his name from public memory after his dramatic arrest and execution in 1953, little has been known about his long and tumultuous career. Now, drawing on sources made available since glasnost, Amy Knight describes in chilling detail the story of Beria's climb to the top of the Stalinist system, his complex relationship with Stalin, and his bitter struggle with Khrushchev after Stalin's death." -- from the dust jacket.

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