portraits of five remarkable lives Gregory, Paul R. creator ebrary, Inc text bibliography biography Electronic books. cau Stanford, Calif Hoover Institution Press 2013 monographic eng

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xiii, 246 p. : ill., maps, ports. Terror's human face -- Stalin : struggles and successes -- Agnessa : elite NKVD wife -- Maria : portrait of the new Soviet family -- Evgenia : luxury with a beast -- Adile : princess bride of Abkhazia -- Fekla : child of the kulaks -- Stalin : the storm descends -- Agnessa : crashing a funeral -- Stalin : launching the great terror -- Agnessa : the purge spreads far and wide -- Maria : a narrow escape -- Evgenia : socialist realist -- Adile : the master will not abandon us -- Fekla : becoming a Bolshevik -- Stalin : the master needs a scapegoat -- Agnessa : new year's eve with the Master -- Maria : wife of a traitor to the motherland -- Evgenia : losing everything -- Adile : return and arrest -- Fekla : face of the future -- Aftermath. Paul R. Gregory. Includes bibliographical references and index. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. e-ur--- GULag NKVD. Women political prisoners Soviet Union Biography Political persecution Soviet Union Concentration camps Soviet Union Prisons Soviet Union Forced labor Soviet Union Soviet Union History 1925-1953 DK268.A1 G724 2013eb 365/.45092520947 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10748105 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10748105 CaPaEBR 121113 ebr10748105