Beria: Stalin's First Lieutenant

Zusatztext "Beria is ripe for revisionism. The danger is that too much can be made of Beria's relative liberalism. . . . Amy Knight does not fall into this trap. Hers is a strictly political biography and a very good one." ---Simon Sebag Montefiore! The [London] Times Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Amy Knight
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.02.1996
• EAN: 9780691010939
• ISBN: 978-0-691-01093-9
• No. of pages: 338
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 233 mm x 21 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, Biography: historical, political & military, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Biography: historical, political and military, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, Central / national / federal government, Marxism & Communism, Central government, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet