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Title: Stalin's Loyal Executioner: People's Commissar Nikolai Ezhov, 1895-1940 by Marc Jansen, Nikita Petrov ISBN: 0-8179-2902-9 Publisher: Hoover Inst Pr Pub. Date: 05 April, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: Authoritative book in English on Stalin's bloody servant
Comment: Jansen and Petrov's biography tells everything worthwhile likely to be known about N. I. Yezhov, Commissar of the NKVD (Stalin's secret police) during the Great Purge of 1936-38. It also summarizes the mechanics and motivation of the Purge itself, using extensive Russian-language sources emerging since 1988.
In some ways Yezhov was more a pathetic than an evil character, unfortunately falling under the spell of a brilliant but evil man. Good-natured and helpful before getting drawn into Stalin's work of repression, Yezhov would degenerate into a torturer and murderer, incapable of distinguishing true from imaginary charges.
The book is a bit dry in places, but that is a hazard of the subject: relatively little "human" detail is known about Yezhov. (Aleksei Polyansky's Russian-language biography tried to get around this problem by inventing dialogue.) Yezhov and his close associates were nearly all liquidated in 1939-1940; those who survived knew they should keep silent. Indeed, apart from some generic execration, Yezhov would remain taboo until the age of Glasnost' (1988), 48 years after his death.
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Title: Beria by Amy Knight ISBN: 0691010935 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 11 December, 1995 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Gulag : A History by Anne Applebaum ISBN: 0767900561 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Stalin's Last Crime : The Plot Against the Jewish Doctors, 1948-1953 by Jonathan Brent, Vladimir Naumov ISBN: 006019524X Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia by A. N. Iakovlev, Anthony Austin, Paul Hollander, Alexander N. Yakovlev ISBN: 0300087608 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Khrushchev: The Man and His Era by William Taubman ISBN: 0393051447 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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