Stalin and His Hangmen: An Authoritative Portrait of a Tyrant and Those Who Served Him.(Reviews)(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Contemporary Review | September 1, 2004 | Copyright

Stalin and His Hangmen: An Authoritative Portrait of a Tyrant and Those Who Served Him. Donald Rayfield. Viking. [pounds sterling]20.00. xxvi + 528 pages. ISBN 0-670-91088-0. Historians have come to see that a true understanding of a dictatorship must centre not just on the dictator but on those who support him through obedience. Here Prof Rayfield follows Stalin's 'path to total power' and those who made it possible, in particular the five men who were in charge of security and the secret police: Dzierzynski, Menzhinsky, Iagoda, Ezhov and Beria. Without these, Stalin could ...

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