Beria
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: December 11, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780691010939
Subjects: Biography: general; Central government; Marxism & Communism; Russia - History - 1917 To 1991; History; Biography / Autobiography; History: World; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; Historical - General; European History; History / Russia (pre- & post-Soviet Union); Political Science and International Relations
First sentence: IT IS ONE of Soviet history's great ironies that Stalian and Beria, two of its most notorious political villains, were both born and raised in Georgia, a country renowned for the beauty and charm of its people, as well as for its rich cultural history.