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Yezhov : the rise of Stalin's "iron fist"

Author: Наумов, Олег В. ; J Arch Getty; Oleg V Naumov
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2008.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Head of the secret police from 1937 to 1938, N I Yezhov was a foremost Soviet leader during these years, second in power only to Stalin himself. Under Yezhov's orders, millions of arrests,  Read more...

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Genre/Form: Biographie
Biography
Named Person: Nikolaĭ Ivanovich Ezhov; Ezhov; Nikolaj I Ežov
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Наумов, Олег В. ; J Arch Getty; Oleg V Naumov
ISBN: 9780300092059 0300092059
OCLC Number: 180575505
Description: xxv, 283 p., [6] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction: constructing the commissar --
Epilogue as prologue: the commissar at work --
The making of a Bolshevik --
In the provinces --
The party personnel system --
Sorting out the comrades --
Yezhov on the job: "cadres decide everything" --
Yezhov and the Kirov assassination --
Enemies large and small --
Angling for the job.
Responsibility: J. Arch Getty and Oleg V. Naumov ; with the assistance of Nadezhda V. Muraveva.
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"Meticulously sourced. . . . [An] absorbing read, and useful as a reminder of how cruel humans can be in the name of a cause." -- James Critchlow "The New Leader" (05/01/2008)

 
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