Beria : : Stalin's First Lieutenant / / Amy Knight.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Knight, Amy,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 p.) :; 12 halftones, 1 map
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; CHRONOLOGY OF BERIA'S LIFE --; ABBREVIATIONS --; INTRODUCTION --; Chapter One. EARLY LIFE AND CAREER --; Chapter Two. SERVICE IN THE GEORGIAN POLITICAL POLICE --; Chapter 3. LEADER OF GEORGIA AND TRANSCAUCASIA: 1931-1936 --; Chapter Four. THE PURGES IN GEORGIA --; Chapter Five. MASTER OF THE LUBIANKA --; Chapter Six. THE WAR YEARS --; Chapter Seven. KREMLIN POLITICS AFTER THE WAR --; Chapter Eight. BERIA UNDER FIRE: 1950-1953 --; Chapter Nine. THE DOWNFALL OF BERIA --; Chapter Ten. THE AFTERMATH --; Chapter Eleven. BERIA RECONSIDERED --; NOTES --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780691214245; 9783110442496
• DOI: 10.1515/9780691214245?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Amy Knight.

This is the first comprehensive biography of Lavrentii Beria, Stalin's notorious police chief and for many years his most powerful lieutenant. Beria has long symbolized all the evils of Stalinism, haunting the public imagination both in the West and in the former Soviet Union. Yet because his political opponents expunged his name from public memory after his dramatic arrest and execution in 1953, little has been previously published about his long and tumultuous career.