Résumé
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The USSR's head executioner? Stalin's master spy? The model Bolshevik? A Georgian patriot? Promoter of the Communist atomic bomb? A docile dogsbody? A sexual predator? Who exactly was Beria? Official History and counter-history, the dozens of biographies that have been devoted to him since his vertiginous fall in 1953, they present all these different faces of the man in turn. From Caucasus to Moscow, from behind the scenes in the Politburo to embassies, from the Gulag to Operation Barbarossa, with all the purges to plots, the paradoxical destiny of Beria is recounted here by Françoise Thom, who sets in in its context: the epic of the greatest and most bloody empire the world has ever known. Beria was first to denounce a system whose absurdity he knew better than any other. Stalin may have called him 'My Himmler' - Beria nevertheless remained the harbinger of de-Stalinisation and perestroika. The fruit of a ten-year long investigation of the latest Soviet archives made available to the public, this unprecedented book lifts the veil on the 'Beria mystery'. Laying bare the obscured face of the Kremlin's Janus, it offers a global vision - innovating and surprising - of the secret history of Communist totalitarianism.
L'auteur - Françoise Thom
Françoise Thom - Spécialiste de l'Union soviétique, Françoise Thom est maître de conférences en histoire contemporaine.
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Caractéristiques techniques
PAPIER | NUMERIQUE | |
Éditeur(s) | Cerf | |
Auteur(s) | Françoise Thom | |
Parution | 17/10/2013 | 17/10/2013 |
Nb. de pages | 924 | - |
Format | 15.5 x 24 | - |
Couverture | Broché | - |
Poids | 1370g | - |
Contenu | - |
ePub |
EAN13 | 9782204101585 |
9782204108171 |
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