Stalin and His Hangmen

An Authoritative Portrait of a Tyrant and Those Who Served Him

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Donald Rayfield

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Stalin, like Hitler and other tyrants, won and held power because he had collaborators - hangmen. Drawing on newly released archival material, Donald Rayfield gives us a fuller and more colourful picture of Stalin's inner circle than ever before. Stalin was not the sole author of Stalinism. What motivated his chiefs of police, Feliks Dzierzynski, Viacheslav Manzhinsky, Genrikh Iagoda, Nicolai Ezhov and Lavrenti Beria? What did they want? What were their relations with the regime and its ruler? How did their upbringing and experience mould them? And how does the error they create connect with the terror they felt? Stalin and His Hangmen reconstructs the psychological mechanism of a whole regime and what it held together.

Author Biography:

Donald Rayfield is Professor of Russian and Georgian at Queen Mary College, University of London. He is the author of a number of books including The Literature of Georgia: A History and Anton Chekhov: A Life.

Release date NZ

March 31st, 2005

Author

Donald Rayfield

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

592

Dimensions

129x198x36

ISBN-13

9780141003757

Product ID

1743699

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