Soviet Secret Police Chiefs, 1917-1953
commissars of fear
$91.99
- Hardcover
272 pages
- Release Date
30 October 2025
Summary
Commissars of Fear: Unmasking Stalin’s Secret Police Chiefs
Soviet Secret Police Chiefs, 1926-1953. Commissars of Fear is a combined edition of two works by Boris V. Sokolov, detailing the lives and careers of the six Soviet secret police heads from Dzerzhinskii to Abakumov. The book brings together The People’s Commissars of Fear and its expanded version The People’s Commissars of Terror, offering a comprehensive view of the men who led Stalin’s apparatus…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781036101688 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1036101681 |
| Author: | Boris Sokolov, Richard W. Harrison |
| Publisher: | Pen & Sword Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Pen & Sword Books Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 30 October 2025 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm |
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About The Author
Boris Sokolov
Author
Boris Sokolov is a military historian, geographer and anthropologist and an expert in Russian literature. He has written studies of Gogol, Sergei Yesenin and Mikhail Bulgakov. For the last twenty years he has concentrated on Soviet twentieth-century history, writing about Lavrentiy Beria, Joseph Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov and Leonid Brezhnev. He has also played a leading role in the struggle to reveal the reality behind the myths about the Soviet Union in the Second World War.
Editor and Translator
Richard Harrison is a writer, editor and translator specializing in Russian military history. He has also taught Russian history and military history at the college and university level. Among his publications are several translations of the studies compiled by the Soviet Army General Staff on Red Army operations during the Second World War.
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