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Bezig met laden... Yezhov: The Rise of Stalin's "Iron Fist" (Portraits of Revolution series)door J. Arch Getty
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. The rise of Yezhov through the Communist Party to head the NKVD, the soviet secret police and then executed in about 1940. An examination of the "times and life" of the NKVD's chief during the climax of the Great Purge, one is given the portrait of a man who was the consummate Stalinist bureaucrat, who bought whole-heartedly into the values and attitudes of his culture, and who was no mere puppet of Stalin. Even if you don't buy this interpretation of Yezhov you will get a firm grounding in how official business really got done in the Inter-war Soviet Union, besides getting a sense of how deep the streams of Bolshevik paranoia and distrust ran. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
The definitive study of Nikolai Yezhov's rise to become the chief of Stalin's secret police--and the dictator's "iron fist"--during the Great Terror 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, imprisonments, deportations, and executions were carried out. This book, based upon unprecedented access to Communist Party archives and Yezhov's personal archives, looks into the life and career of the enigmatic man who administered Stalin's Great Terror. J. Arch Getty and Oleg V. Naumov seek to answer a series of troubling questions. What kind of person calmly and efficiently sends thousands of innocent people to their deaths? What could prepare a man for such a role? How could a person whom acquaintances describe as friendly, pleasant, and even gallant carry out one of history's most horrifying campaigns of terror? The authors uncover the full details of Yezhov's rise to power and conclude that he was not merely Stalin's tool but a skillful maneuverer in his own right. The historical documents provide a thorough portrait of Yezhov and reveal a man of fanatical dedication to his leader and his party--a man who became a willing murderer. Readers will find his story chilling, the more so in our own times, when the impulse to terror that engulfed Yezhov seems neither surprising nor unfamiliar. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)947.084History and Geography Europe Russia and eastern Europe [and formerly Finland] Russian & Slavic History by Period 1855- 1917-1953 ; Communist periodLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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