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Watchdogs of Terror: Russian Bodyguards from the Tsars to the Commissars

By Peter , DERIABIN

Book information

Publisher
Arlington House
Year
1972
ISBN
0-87000-137-X
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
10 MB (10200856 bytes)
Pages
455\455
Time added
2018-04-20 01:23:53
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Description

FOREWORD: "For some ten years, I was a Russian counter intelligence officer and bodyguard, serving during the end of the Stalin era, a time when the system of protecting a national leadership had reached a technical perfection still unattained elsewhere in the world. ..." Foreword. I. Pre-Bolshevik Bloody Russia. II. Tsarist Bodyguards. III. Communist Bloody Russia. IV. Pre-Stalin Communist Bodyguards. V. Early Stalinist Bodyguard System. VI. Bodyguards of an Entrenched Stalin. VII. The Years of Trouble. Epilogue. Appendices I-VI. Bibliography. Index.

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