Who Killed Kirov?
Subtitle: The Kremlin's Greatest Mystery
Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub
Published: May 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9780809064045
Subjects: History: World; Political; History; Russia - History - 1917 To 1991; Revolutionaries; History - General History; Murder; Kirov, Sergeæi Mironovich,; General; Biography; Politics and government; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; Historical - General; Soviet Union; 1886-1934; 1917-1936
First sentence: On 4 December 1934, with a freezing, damp dawn breaking over Moscow's October railway station, a large delegation of workers, summoned for the occasion by the party, watched in shivering silence as the Red Arrow from Leningrad pulled up and a coffin was lowered onto the platform.