- Taschenbuch: 338 Seiten
- Verlag: Princeton Univ Pr; Auflage: Reprint (11. Dezember 1995)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0691010935
- ISBN-13: 978-0691010939
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 23,5 x 15,5 x 2,2 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.5 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (4 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 462.393 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Like many of Stalin's executors, Lavrentii Beria was no neophyte at wreaking terror. He liquidated thousands in the Bolshevik takeover of Georgia in 1922-24, which service brought the ambitious man to the notice of the boss. More crafty than Stalin's other police chiefs, Beria survived until his own execution as an enemy of the people in 1953. Stalin's successors were anxious to deflect their own complicity in the regime's criminality, and so the archives were locked. No historically verifiable account of Beria's career as Stalin's "Himmler" has been possible--until now. Beria apparently had no life to speak of, aside from raping young girls outside his office, which, on occasion, doubled as a torture chamber. These sick details--and dramatic ones surrounding Khrushchev's coup--underwrite the deadly character of the author's main import: Kremlin politics following Beria's takeover of the NKVD in 1938. Knight has ably examined and coherently reassembled the slivers and shards of evidence, and future biographers (with strong stomachs) will surely build on her pioneering work. Gilbert Taylor
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Scrupulous academic account that ultimately fails to do full justice to the chilling fascination of its subject. The bland subtitle that Knight (Senior Research Analyst/Library of Congress) chooses signals both the strengths and weaknesses of this first full-scale biography of Stalin's infamous police chief Laventrii Beria--``My Himmler,'' as Uncle Joe nicknamed him. Exploiting the mass of documentation newly available from former Soviet archives, Knight traces with forensic precision the sometime architectural student's rise, through the bloody ranks of Lenin's Cheka and its Stalinist successors in Georgia during the USSR's formative years, to oversee Stalin's massive edifice of organized state terror from 1938 until the dictator's death in 1953. Implicit in Knight's matter-of-fact account is the claim that Beria was singular less for his ruthless violence than for his adroit negotiation of Soviet internal politics and his canny currying of favor with Stalin. Yet the broader context of the culture of terror in which Beria's ghastly talents flourished remains hazy: Knight supplies no ethical or moral account of Stalinism, and few contemporary figures beyond Beria himself, his grim master, and familiar names such as Khrushchev, Malenkov, and Molotov emerge distinctly. Moreover, those new to the murderous intricacies of Stalinist infighting may find clarity retreating under a mass of initials, patronymics, and organizational acronyms. Knight readily acknowledges Beria's ``evil'' but does too little to help her readers understand it; hence her subsequent heavy stress on his unexpected emergence, in the frenzied power struggle that followed Stalin's death, as a pragmatic reformer--hardly absolution, most readers will feel, for a lifetime otherwise unblemished by loyalty, compassion, or common decency. In avoiding sensationalism or unbridled psychological speculation, Knight forgoes a full apprehension of the pathology of Beria and the system that bred him--without which many may choose not to endure the man's odious company. (Illustrations) -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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IT IS ONE of Soviet history's great ironies that Stalian and Beria, two of its most notorious political villains, were both born and raised in Georgia, a country renowned for the beauty and charm of its people, as well as for its rich cultural history. Lesen Sie die erste Seite
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IT IS ONE of Soviet history's great ironies that Stalian and Beria, two of its most notorious political villains, were both born and raised in Georgia, a country renowned for the beauty and charm of its people, as well as for its rich cultural history. Lesen Sie die erste Seite
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What a well written book. The theme has possibilities for being boring, but the author is gifted in her writing style. There is rich detail, a wonderful notes section to back up her research, yet it reads like a novel. This book is one of the best i've read about kremlin politics.
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Amy Knight has done an excellent job of unmasking the evil Lavrenty Beria, for many years Stalin's head of secret police. But the book veers off course towards the end, after Stalin's death, when Knight tries to persuade us that the mass murderer was in fact a closet reformer who proposed freeing many of the prisoners he himself had incarcerated and wanted a more relaxed line with East Germany. An intriguing book, nevertheless
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This is a really excellent piece of work. Amy Knight has produced what is billed as the first biography of Beria and one it will be hard for any future writer to outdo. The book is determinedly unsensational, meticulously researched and annotated, and well-written. We are given a rounded picture of a brutal opportunist who could be pragmatic when the occasion called for it. The book speculates interestingly and plausibly on what might have happened had Beria succeeded in his bid to succeed Stalin. Khrushchev, who got the job in the end, adopted many of Beria's policies. My only minor gripe is that the switch from looking at Beria's myriad bad points to his good ones jars sometimes. But if you want to know more about a key, but shadowy, figure from the Stalin era, read this book. They don't come much better.
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