A01=Amy Knight
Abkhazia
Author_Amy Knight
Azerbaijan
Belarus
Bodyguard
Bogdan Kobulov
Bolsheviks
Bureaucrat
Career
Category=DNBH
Category=JPFC
Category=JPQ
Central Committee
Chairman
Cheka
Commissar
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Comrade
Counterintelligence
Courtesy
Criticism
Dacha
De-Stalinization
Enemy of the people
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
Espionage
Gagra
Georgians
Georgy Malenkov
Georgy Zhukov
GPU
Gulag
Indictment
Kolkhoz
Konstantin Simonov
Labor camp
Lavrentiy Beria
Leonid Brezhnev
Library of Congress
Mamia Orakhelashvili
Mass arrest
Mensheviks
Mingrelians
Musavat
Nestor Lakoba
Nikita Khrushchev
Nikolai Bulganin
Nikolai Yezhov
NKVD
October Revolution
Old Bolshevik
Ordzhonikidze
Party leader
Party secretary
Peasant
Persecution
Politburo
Political party
Politician
Politics
Presidium
Red Army
Reprisal
Russians
Secret police
Sergo Ordzhonikidze
Soviet people
Soviet Union
Sovietization
Stalinism
Sukhumi
Supreme Soviet
Svetlana Alliluyeva
Tbilisi
Transcaucasia
Product details
- ISBN 9780691010939
- Weight: 482g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 31 Dec 1995
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
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 previously published about his long and tumultuous career.
Amy Knight is a Senior Research Analyst at the Library of Congress and a former Woodrow Wilson Fellow. She is also the author of The KGB: Police and Politics in the Soviet Union.
