Superprijs Yezhov The Rise of Stalin’s “iron Fist” – John Arch Getty

The definitive study of Nikolai Yezhov’s rise to become the chief of Stalin’s secret police–and the dictator’s “iron fist”–during the Great Terror Head of the secret police from 1937 to 1938, N. I. Yezhov was a foremost Soviet leader during these years, second in power only to Stalin himself. Under Yezhov’s orders, millions of arrests, imprisonments, deportations, and executions were carried out. This book, based upon unprecedented access to Communist Party archives and Yezhov’s personal ar…