Inside Stalin's Kremlin: An Eyewitness Account of Brutality, Duplicity, and Intrigue

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Pub. Date: 2000-03-01
Publisher(s): Potomac Books Inc
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Summary

The only known member of the Kremlin Guards Directorate to escape the Soviet Union tells his story and exposes crimes of Cold War Soviet leaders.

Table of Contents

Publisher's Note vii
Note on Russian Names viii
Preface ix
Prologue 1(6)
PART ONE---INSIDE THE KREMLIN
Back and Forth
7(9)
Reunion
16(8)
Two Georgians and Soviet Jewry
24(7)
Zhdanov vs. Malenkov
31(10)
Vigilance
41(5)
A Doctor Cries Murder
46(6)
The Fourth Letter
52(10)
A Dread Disease
62(10)
The Independent Commission
72(10)
Battleground: The MGB
82(8)
The 19th Congress of the CPSU
90(8)
``Saboteur-Doctors''
98(10)
Spying on Chairman Mao
108(7)
A Policy Defeat
115(7)
The Assault and the Cover-Up
122(10)
The Status of Stalin
132(4)
``I Am the Politburo''
136(15)
A Coup Aborted
151(9)
After Beria
160(7)
PART TWO---FIXING THE GUILT
Trials of State Security Chiefs
167(11)
Khrushchev: Accuser and Defender
178(6)
Stalin: Family Murderer
184(9)
PART THREE---WESTWARD
Doubts about the System
193(10)
An Urgency to Defect
203(8)
The Last Day
211(12)
Appendixes
Appendix A---Organizational Diagram: The MGB Guards Directorate
218(2)
Appendix B---Principal Personalities
220(3)
Notes 223(15)
Glossary 238(2)
Index 240

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