Yezhov: The Rise of Stalin's "Iron Fist" (Portraits of Revolution Series)
Getty, J. Arch; Naumov, Oleg V.
From Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
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From Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller Since June 16, 2008
About this Item
Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Light wear. Faint foxing to edges. Clean, unmarked pages. "This book, based upon unprecedented access to Communist Party archives and Nikolai Yezhov's personal archives, looks into the life and career of the enigmatic man who administered Stalin's Great 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 The historical documents provide a thorough portrait of Yezhov and reveal a man of fanatical dedication to his leader and his party - a man who became a willing murderer.". Seller Inventory # 2308070004
Bibliographic Details
Title: Yezhov: The Rise of Stalin's "Iron Fist" (...
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication Date: 2008
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: As New
Edition: First Edition.
About this title
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 The historical documents provide a thorough portrait of Yezhov and reveal a man of fanatical dedication to his leader and his party—a man who became a willing murderer.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.
J. Arch Getty is professor of history, UCLA. He is a foremost expert of the Stalin period and the history of the Soviet Communist Party. He lives in Los Angeles. Oleg V. Naumov is deputy director of the Moscow archive of the former Soviet Communist Party, RGASPI. Getty and Naumov are coauthors of The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932–1939, published by Yale University Press.
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