Product Highlights
Soviet Secret Police Chiefs, 1917-1953: Commissars of Fear is a hardcover history by Boris V. Sokolov, combining two of his earlier works into a single volume profiling the six men who successively led the Soviet secret police from Felix Dzerzhinsky to Viktor Abakumov.
Features
- 392 pages
- Hardcover
- Measures 9" x 6"
About the Book
The book traces the careers of the Soviet Union's secret police chiefs from the founding of the Cheka in 1917 through the Stalin era, covering their roles in state repression, including the Great Terror of the late 1930s. Each of the six men profiled was eventually removed from power, and most were executed by the same system they had served.
