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This is the first comprehensive biography of Lavrentii Beria, Stalin's notorious police chief and for many years his most powerful lieutenant. Beria has long symbolized all the evils of Stalinism, haunting the public imagination both in the West and in the former Soviet Union. Yet because his political opponents expunged his name from public memory after his dramatic arrest and execution in 1953, little has been previously published about his long and tumultuous career.
Beria, Lavrenty P. --- Internal security --- Politicians --- Sûreté de l'Etat --- Hommes politiques --- Biography --- Biographies --- Beriia, L. P. --- Georgia (Republic) --- Soviet Union --- Géorgie (République) --- URSS --- Politics and government --- Politique et gouvernement --- Sûreté de l'Etat --- Berii͡a, L. P. --- Géorgie (République) --- Biographie. --- Biografie. --- Berija, Lavrentij P. --- Berija, Lavrentij Pavlovič, --- Berija, Lavrentij P., --- biografije --- politiki --- varnostne službe --- NKVD --- stalinizem --- Politics and government. --- Biographie --- Biographisches Nachschlagewerk --- Lebensbeschreibung --- Berühmte Persönlichkeit --- Biografisches Nachschlagewerk --- Biograf --- Lebenslauf --- Biografik --- Biografie --- Beria, L. --- Berija, L. --- Beria, Levrenti --- Beria, Lavrentj P. --- Beria, Lavrentj --- Beria, L. P. --- Beria, Lavrenti --- Berija, L. P. --- Beria, Lavrentiy --- Beria, Lavrenty Pavlovich --- Beriya, Lavrenty Pavlovich --- Beria, Lavrenti Pavlovich --- Beria, Lawrientij Pawlowicz --- Beria, Lawrentij --- Berija, Lawrenti P. --- Berija, Lavrencij P. --- Berija, Lavrencij --- Beria, Lavrencij P. --- Beria, Lavrencij --- Beriia, Lavrentiĭ P. --- Beriya, Lavrenty P. --- Beria, Ławrientij P. --- Beria, Lavrenti P. --- Beriia, Lavrentii Pavlovich --- Berija, Lavrentij --- Beria, Lawrenti --- Beria --- Berija, Lawrentij Pawlowitsch --- ბერია, ლავრენტი --- Берия, Лаврентий Павлович --- Politiker --- Offizier --- Mercheuli --- Moskau --- Berija, Sergo L. --- 29.03.1899-23.12.1953 --- 1899-1953 --- Armenian Communist Party. --- Belorussia. --- Brezhnev, Leonid. --- Chechen deportees. --- Czechoslovakia. --- Djilas, Milovan. --- East German crisis. --- Fitin, P. M. --- Great Soviet Encyclopedia. --- Harriman, Averell. --- Iagoda, Genrikh. --- Jewish Antifascist Committee. --- Karanadze, Grigorii. --- Kvantaliani, E. A. --- Lordkipanidze, Tite. --- Mdivani, Budu. --- Nicolaevsky, Boris. --- OGPU. --- Persia. --- Social Democrats. --- World War I. --- agriculture. --- agro-towns. --- espionage. --- intelligentsia. --- liberalization. --- military industries. --- nuclear program. --- repatriation. --- terrorism.
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This book offers a compelling and comprehensive account of what happened to the KGB when the Soviet Union collapsed and the world's most powerful and dangerous secret police organization was uncloaked. As Amy Knight shows, the KGB was renamed and reorganized several times after it was officially disbanded in December 1991--but it was not reformed. Knight's rich and lively narrative begins with the aborted August 1991 coup, led by KGB hard-liners, and takes us through the summer of 1995, when the Russian parliamentary elections were looming on the horizon. The failed coup attempt was a setback for the KGB because it led to demands from Russian democrats for a complete overhaul of the security services. As a result, the KGB's leaders were fired, its staff reduced, and its functions dispersed among several agencies. Even the elite foreign intelligence service was subjected to budget cuts. But President Yeltsin was reluctant to press on with reforms of the security services, because he needed their support in his struggle against mounting political opposition. Indeed, by the spring of 1995, the security services had regained much of what they had lost in the wake of the August coup. Some observers were even saying that they had acquired more power and influence than the old KGB.This story told by one of the foremost experts on the Soviet/Russian security services and enriched by face-to-face interviews with security professionals in Moscow, is crucial to understanding Russian politics in transition. It will fascinate scholars, policymakers, and general readers interested in the fate of the KGB.
Internal politics --- Political sociology --- anno 1990-1999 --- Russian Federation --- Secret service --- -Secret police (Secret service) --- Police --- Detectives --- Intelligence service --- Spies --- Russia (Federation). Ministerstvo bezopasnosti --- SpiesRussia (Federation). Ministerstvo bezopasnosti --- -Russia (Federation). Ministerstvo bezopasnosti --- Russia --- Russia (Federation). --- Secret police (Secret service) --- MB Rossii --- MBRF --- Russian KGB --- Russian S.F.S.R. --- Agentstvo federalʹnoĭ bezopasnosti RSFSR --- Federalʹnai︠a︡ sluzhba kontrrazvedki RF --- Rusland --- Ryssland --- Rusko --- An Rúis --- Русија --- ir-Russja --- Rusija --- Venäjä --- Ρωσία --- Rusia --- Oroszország --- die Russische Föderation --- Venemaa --- Russie --- Русия --- Krievija --- Rússia --- Rosja --- Russische Föderation --- Venäjän federaatio --- Federata Ruse --- Ruská federace --- Fédération de Russie --- Federacja Rosyjska --- Ruská federácia --- Krievijas Federācija --- Venemaa Föderatsioon --- Russische Federatie --- il-Federazzjoni Russa --- Ruska federacija --- Den Russiske Føderation --- Federația Rusă --- Federação Russa --- Federazione russa --- RSFSR --- Ryska federationen --- Orosz Föderáció --- Руска Федерација --- Rußland --- Руска федерация --- Rusijos Federacija --- Federación de Rusia --- Russland
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Een uitgebreide biografie van Beria, de man die onder Stalin's bewind hoofd was van de politie en dus de richtlijnen en wensen van Stalin in praktijk bracht: de meest gevreesde Staiin-pion.
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Police --- History. --- 351.746.1 --- 327.8 <47> --- 947 --- Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoi bezopasnosti --- Soviet Union. Komitet gosudartvenno i bezopasnosti --- History --- Soviet Union --- Politics and government --- 1945 --- -Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvenno i bezopasnosti - History. --- Police - Soviet Union - History. --- Soviet Union - Politics and government - 1945 --- -Soviet Union. Komitet gosudartvenno i bezopasnosti --- -Police --- Soviet Union. --- KGB --- USSR KGB --- K.G.B. --- Russia (1923- U.S.S.R.). --- KA-GKE-BE --- KGB SSSR --- ק.ג.ב --- Gosudarstvennyĭ komitet RSFSR po obshchestvennoĭ bezopasnosti i vzaimodeĭstvii︠u︡ s Ministerstvom oborony SSSR i KGB SSSR --- Russia (Federation). --- T︠S︡entralʹnai︠a︡ sluzhba razvedki SSSR --- -Police - Soviet Union - History. --- Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvenno i bezopasnosti - History. --- Soviet Union - Politics and government - 1945-
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Russia is no stranger to political murder, from the Tsars and the Soviets to the Putin regime, during which many journalists, activists and political opponents have been slain. However convenient these deaths are for Putin, Kremlin defenders like to assert that there is no evidence against him, and because Putin controls all the investigations, he is never seen holding a smoking gun. This book provides new information about the most famous victims - such as Alexander Litvinenko, the former secret service officer who was poisoned while living in London, and the statesman Boris Nemtsov, who was murdered outside the Kremlin in 2015 - and traces Putin's journey from the Federal Security Service (FSB) in the late 1990s to his subsequent rise to absolute power as the Kremlin's leader today. Long hidden in plain sight, this is a chilling story with huge ramifications.
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The five chapters of this volume focus on the complex and tumultuous events occurring in Russia during the five months from May through September 1999. They sparked the Russian invasion of Chechnya on 1 October and vaulted a previously unknown former KGB agent into the post of Russian prime minister and, ultimately, president.The five chapters are devoted to:? The intense political struggle taking place in Russia between May and August of 1999, culminating in an incursion by armed Islamic separatists into the Republic of Dagestan.? Two Moscow terrorist bombings of 9 and 13
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