Author(s): Donald Rayfield (Professor of Russian and Georgian, Queen Mary and Westfield University, London)

Biography & Memoir

"This is a major contribution to the history of the USSR> It produces probably the most detailed and precise knowledge of Stalin's thinking and deeds, and that of his most important butchers. Rayfiled casts light on the areas which have not been well enough described before:extermination of the intellectuals, destruction of the Curch and killing of priests, slaughter of the peasantry, ferocious attacks on the Jews" Oleg Gordievsky