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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jansen, Marc.

Contributor:

Petrov, N. V. (Nikita Vasilʹevich)

Series:

Hoover Institution Press publication ; 502.

Hoover Institution Press publication ; no. 502

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political purges--Soviet Union--History.

Political purges.

Soviet Union. Narodnyĭ komissariat vnutrennikh del--Officials and employees--Biography.

Soviet Union.

Kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ Sovetskogo Soi︠u︡za--Purges.

Kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ Sovetskogo Soi︠u︡za.

Ezhov, Nikolaĭ Ivanovich, 1895-1940.

Ezhov, Nikolaĭ Ivanovich.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Hoover Institution Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8179-2908-8

OCLC:

865331355