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Inside Stalin's Kremlin : an eyewitness account of brutality, duplicity, and intrigue

Title: Inside Stalin's Kremlin : an eyewitness account of brutality, duplicity, and intrigue / Peter S. Deriabin, with Joseph Culver Evans.
Author: Deriabin, Peter, 1921-1992.
Publication: Washington, DC : Brassey's, [1998], ©1998.

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Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Text	Request in advance	DK268.D47 A3 1998	Off-site

Additional Authors

Evans, Joseph Culver.

Description

xvii, 245 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"In this new book, the first major post-Stalin defector exposes the crimes of Soviet leaders during the critical Cold War period from 1947 to 1954. Inside Stalin's Kremlin is the first comprehensive insider's account of the least-known phase of Soviet history."--BOOK JACKET.
"Peter Deriabin was the only known member of the Kremlin Guards Directorate (Stalin's KGB bodyguards) ever to escape the Soviet Union. As a ranking member of this Soviet elite, Deriabin was privy to Kremlin orders and correspondence seen by only a few. He reveals such secrets as how Stalin was almost removed as Soviet leader when it was discovered he had murdered his wife and the fact that Stalin had eavesdropping equipment installed in Mao Zedong's private quarters and offices.
He describes Stalin's executioners practicing their craft and how the tables turned as Stalin's ruthless rival, Lavrenti Beria, slowly stripped him of power and protection, and ultimately murdered him in his Kremlin office. Inside Stalin's Kremlin provides new details about Stalin's mysterious death."--BOOK JACKET. "Deriabin's own escape from this nightmare world brings to an exciting conclusion his chilling account of palace intrigue and the brutality of absolute power."--BOOK JACKET.

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ISBN

1574881744

LCCN

98016578

OCLC

ocm38739023

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries