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