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.
- ISBN10 0691032572
- ISBN13 9780691032573
- Publish Date 5 December 1993
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 October 2001
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Princeton University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 338
- Language English
- URL https://press.princeton.edu/titles/5279.html