num_pages: 288
description: Stalin's Loyal Executioner, drawn from still-classified Soviet archives, chronicles the meteoric and bloody career of Nikolai Ezhov, NKVD leader and security chief, revealing the tragic scope of communist terrorism under Joseph Stalin.
language: English
title: Stalin's Loyal Executioner: People's Commissar Nikolai Ezhov, 1895-1940
titlecomplete: Stalin's Loyal Executioner: People's Commissar Nikolai Ezhov, 1895-1940 (Hoover Institution Press Publication)
genres: History, Russia
ratings_count: 34
publisher: Hoover Institution Press