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050	0	0	_aDK 268.B384 _bK58 1993
082	0	0	_a947.084/2/092 _aB _220
100	1		_aKnight, Amy W., _d1946- _eauthor _92255
245	1	0	_aBeria : _bStalin's first lieutenant / _cAmy Knight.
260			_aPrinceton, N.J. : _bPrinceton University Press, _c©1993.
300			_axvi, 312 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 281-294) and index.
505	0		_aChapter 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.
520			_a"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.
600	1	0	_aBerii︠a︡, L. P. _q(Lavrentiĭ Pavlovich), _d1899-1953. _92256
650		0	_aPoliticians _zSoviet Union _xBiography. _92257
650		0	_aInternal security _zSoviet Union. _92258
651		0	_aGeorgia (Republic) _xPolitics and government. _92259
651		0	_aSoviet Union _xPolitics and government _y1936-1953. _92260
856	4	2	_3Publisher description _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/prin031/93003937.html
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