Stalin's Loyal Executioner: People's Commissar Nikolai Ezhov, 1895-1940
Publisher: Hoover Institution Press | ISBN: 0817929029 | edition 2002 | PDF | 274 pages | 15,2 (rar'd 14,9) mb
During the Great Terror (1937 to 1938), at least 1.5 million Soviet citizens were arrested for alleged crimes against the state. Some 700,000 of them were shot. A dozen years after the fall of the Iron Curtain, still-classified Soviet archives reveal for the first time the scope of communist terrorism under Joseph Stalin...