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 politi
Beria, Stalin's first lieutenant
✍ Scribed by Knight, Amy W., 1946-
- Publisher
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Library
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✦ Synopsis
xvi, 312 p. : 25 cm
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