Beria, My Father
Author: Sergo Beria
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is a memoir of the daily life of two men from Georgia--Stalin and Beria--who sent millions to their graves.
Author: Sergo Beria
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is a memoir of the daily life of two men from Georgia--Stalin and Beria--who sent millions to their graves.
Author: Sergo Lavrentʹevich Berii͡a
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 440
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Life inside Stalin's Kremlin through the eyes of Beria, Stalin's closest collaborator and some say murderer, as told by his son.
Author: Amy Knight
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780691010939
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the biography of Lavrentii Beria, Stalin's notorious police chief and for many years his most powerful lieutenant. Beria has long symbolized the evils of Stalinism, yet because his political opponents removed his name from public memory after his execution in 1953, little is known of him.
Author: Catherine Grace Katz
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 435
ISBN-13: 0358117852
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The story of the fascinating and fateful "daughter diplomacy" of Anna Roosevelt, Sarah Churchill, and Kathleen Harriman, three glamorous young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference with Stalin in the waning days of World War II"--
Author: Alex Halberstadt
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2020-03-10
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0593133072
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this “urgent and enthralling reckoning with family and history” (Andrew Solomon), an American writer returns to Russia to face a past that still haunts him. NAMED ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS’ TOP BOOKS OF THE YEAR Alex Halberstadt’s quest takes him across the troubled, enigmatic land of his birth, where decades of Soviet totalitarianism shaped and fractured three generations of his family. In Ukraine, he tracks down his paternal grandfather—most likely the last living bodyguard of Joseph Stalin. He revisits Lithuania, his Jewish mother’s home, to examine the legacy of the Holocaust and the pernicious anti-Semitism that remains largely unaccounted for. And he returns to his birthplace, Moscow, where his grandmother designed homespun couture for Soviet ministers’ wives, his mother consoled dissidents at a psychiatric hospital, and his father made a dangerous living by selling black-market American records. Halberstadt also explores his own story: that of an immigrant growing up in New York, another in a line of sons separated from their fathers by the tides of politics and history. Young Heroes of the Soviet Union is a moving investigation into the fragile boundary between history and biography. As Halberstadt revisits the sites of his family’s formative traumas, he uncovers a multigenerational transmission of fear, suffering, and rage. And he comes to realize something more: Nations, like people, possess formative traumas that penetrate into the most private recesses of their citizens’ lives.
Author: Peter Deriabin
Publisher: Potomac Books
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this new book, the first major post-Stalin defector exposes the crimes of Soviet leaders during the critical Cold War period from 1947 to 1954. Inside Stalin's Kremlin is the first comprehensive insider's account of the least-known phase of Soviet history.
Author: Ted Hopf
Publisher: OUP USA
Published: 2012-04-12
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 0199858489
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This title explores how the early years of the Cold War were marked by contradictions and conflict. It looks at how the turn from Stalin's discourse of danger to the discourse of difference under his successors explains the abrupt changes in relations with Eastern Europe, China, the decolonizing world, and the West.
Author: Sheila Fitzpatrick
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2015-09-15
Total Pages: 379
ISBN-13: 1400874211
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first chronicle of Stalin's inner political and social circle—from a leading Soviet historian Stalin was the unchallenged dictator of the Soviet Union for so long that most historians have dismissed the officials surrounding him as mere yes-men and political window dressing. On Stalin's Team overturns this view, revealing that behind Stalin was a group of loyal men who formed a remarkably effective team with him from the late 1920s until his death in 1953. Drawing on extensive original research, Sheila Fitzpatrick provides the first in-depth account of this inner circle and their families. She vividly describes how these dedicated comrades-in-arms not only worked closely with Stalin, but also constituted his social circle. Stalin's team included the wily security chief Beria; Andreev, who traveled to provincial purges while listening to Beethoven on a portable gramophone; and Khrushchev, who finally disbanded the team four years after Stalin's death. Taking readers from the cataclysms of the Great Purges and World War II to the paranoia of Stalin's final years, On Stalin's Team paints an entirely new picture of Stalin within his milieu—one that transforms our understanding of how the Soviet Union was ruled during much of its existence.
Author: Sergei N. Khrushchev
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 849
ISBN-13: 0271043466
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