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Stalin and his hangmen : an authoritative portrait of a tyrant and those who served him / Donald Rayfield

This study uses archival material to examine the secret police chiefs who enforced Stalin's system of state terror. It analyses the lives and motivations of figures such as Beria and Ezhov to understand the psychological mechanisms behind the Soviet regime.

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