- Politics and government, Political atrocities, Kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ Sovetskogo Soiuza, Soviet Union. Narodnyĭ komissariat vnutrennikh del
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- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Donald Rayfield
- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 560
- Publisher
- Taurus, Penguin Random House, Viking
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- Russian, English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780141914190
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- Politics and government
- Political atrocities
- Kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ Sovetskogo Soiuza
- Soviet Union. Narodnyĭ komissariat vnutrennikh del
- Purges
- Kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ Sovetskogo Soi︠u︡za
- Soviet Union
- History
- Kommunisticheskai͡a partii͡a Sovetskogo Soi͡uza
- Heads of state
- Police chiefs
- Soviet union, politics and government, 1917-1991
Patrick Donald Rayfield (born 12 February 1942, Oxford) is a British academic and Emeritus Professor of Russian and Georgian at Queen Mary University of London. He is an author of books about Russian and Georgian literature, and about Joseph Stalin and his secret police. He is also a series editor for books about Russian writers and intelligentsia. He has translated Georgian, Russian and Uzbek poets and prose writers.
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