Matches in Harvard for { <http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/009361232/catalog> ?p ?o. }
Showing items 1 to 35 of
35
with 100 items per page.
- catalog abstract ""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.". "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."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b13223608.
- catalog coverage "Soviet Union History 1925-1953.".
- catalog coverage "Soviet Union Politics and government 1917-1936.".
- catalog coverage "Soviet Union Politics and government 1936-1953.".
- catalog created "2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
- catalog description ""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."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description ""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.".".
- catalog description "Includes bibliography (p. [487]-498) and index.".
- catalog extent "xxvi, 528 p., [24] p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "Stalin and his hangmen.".
- catalog identifier "0670910880".
- catalog isFormatOf "Stalin and his hangmen.".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London : Viking,".
- catalog relation "Stalin and his hangmen.".
- catalog spatial "Soviet Union History 1925-1953.".
- catalog spatial "Soviet Union Politics and government 1917-1936.".
- catalog spatial "Soviet Union Politics and government 1936-1953.".
- catalog spatial "Soviet Union".
- catalog subject "947.08420922 21".
- catalog subject "Communists Soviet Union Biography.".
- catalog subject "DK268.4 .R39 2004b".
- catalog subject "Heads of state Soviet Union Biography.".
- catalog subject "Police chiefs Soviet Union Biography.".
- catalog subject "Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953 Friends and associates.".
- catalog subject "Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953.".
- catalog title "Stalin and his hangmen : an authoritative portrait of a tyrant and those who served him / Donald Rayfield.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".