Yezhov - The Rise of Stalin`s Iron Fist

J. Arch Getty, Oleg V. Naumov

Yale University Press

2008

320 páginas

10h 40m

ISBN-13: 9780300092059

Head of the secret police from 1937 to 1938, N. I. Yezhov was a foremost Soviet leader during these years, second in power only to Stalin himself. Under Yezhov’s orders, millions of arrests, imprisonments, deportations, and executions were carried out. This book, based upon unprecedented access to Communist Party archives and Yezhov’s personal archives, looks into the life and career of the enigmatic man who administered Stalin’s Great Terror.