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Soviet Secret Police Chiefs, 1917-1953: Commissars of Fear

By Boris Sokolov, Richard W Harrison (Translator), Richard W Harrison (Editor)
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By Boris Sokolov, Richard W Harrison (Translator), Richard W Harrison (Editor)
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Examines the lives, careers, and tragic fates of Stalin’s six secret police leaders.

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 of repress...