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100 _aRayfield, Donald,
_d1942-
_941648
245 1 0 _aStalin and his hangmen :
_ban authoritative portrait of a tyrant and those who served him /
_cDonald Rayfield.
260 _aLondon :
_bViking,
_c2004.
300 _axxvi, 528 pages, [24] pages of plates :
_billustrations, portraits ;
_c24 cm
500 _aPorts. on lining papers.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 1 _a"Stalin did not act alone. The mass executions, the mock trials, the betrayals and purges, the jailings and secret torture that ravaged the Soviet Union during the three decades of Stalin's dictatorship, were the result of a tight network of trusted henchmen (and women), spies, psychopaths, and thugs. At the top of this pyramid of terror sat five indispensable hangmen who presided over the various incarnations of Stalin's secret police. Donald Rayfield probes the lives, the minds, the twisted careers, and the unpunished crimes of Stalin's loyal assassins."
520 8 _a"As Rayfield shows, Stalin and his henchmen worked relentlessly to coerce and suborn leading Soviet intellectuals, artists, writers, lawyers, and scientists. Maxim Gorky, Aleksandr Fadeev, Alexei Tolstoi, Isaak Babel, and Osip Mandelstam were all caught in Stalin's web - courted, toyed with, betrayed, and then ruthlessly destroyed. In bringing to light the careers, personalities, relationships, and "accomplishments" of Stalin's key henchmen and their most prominent victims, Rayfield creates a chilling drama, spanning half a century, of the intersection of political fanaticism, personal vulnerability, and blind lust for power."--Jacket.
600 0 _aStalin, Joseph,
_d1878-1953.
_941649
600 0 _aStalin, Joseph,
_d1878-1953
_xFriends and associates.
_941650
650 0 _aHeads of state
_zSoviet Union
_vBiography.
_941651
650 0 _aPolice chiefs
_zSoviet Union
_vBiography.
_941652
650 0 _aCommunists
_zSoviet Union
_vBiography.
_941653
651 0 _aSoviet Union
_xPolitics and government
_y1917-1936.
_941654
651 0 _aSoviet Union
_xPolitics and government
_y1936-1953.
_941655
651 0 _aSoviet Union
_xHistory
_y1925-1953.
_941656
655 7 _919965
_aBiography.
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776 0 8 _iOnline version:
_aRayfield, Donald, 1942-
_tStalin and his hangmen.
_dLondon : Viking, 2004
_w(OCoLC)646316039
856 4 2 _3The Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund Home Page
_uhttp://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366306
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