Stalin and His Hangmen: The Tyrant and Those Who Killed for Him

Shteinberg, Valentin (De-Straford). Liubimets sluzhb i zhenshchin: Reilly, Captain Sidney.Riga: Budinņa, 2001.

*Vaksberg, Arkadi. Val’kiriia Revoliutsii (Kollontai). Smolensk: Rusich, 1998.

*Volokitina, T. V., et al. (eds.). Moskva i vostochnaia Evropa 1949–53. Moscow: ROSSPÈN, 2002.

CHEKA-GPU-NKVD

Agabekov, G. S. GPU—zapiski chekista. Berlin: Strela, 1930.

Agabekov, G. S. Cheka za robotoi. Berlin: Strela, 1931.

Berezhkov, Vasilii. Tainy Gorokhovoi 2. Vnutri i vne «Bol’shogo doma». St. Petersburg: Bibliopolis, 1995.

Bogdanov, Iu. N. Strogo sekretno, 30 let v OGPU-NKVD-MVD. Moscow: Veche, 2002.

Chekisty: sbornik. Moscow: Molodaia Gvardiia, 1987.

Gul’, Roman. Dzerzhinskii, Menzhinskii, Peters, Latsis, Iagoda. Paris, 1935.

Lacis, M. Ia. (Sudrabs, J.). Chrezvychainye komissii po bor’be s Kontr-revoliutsiei. Moscow: Gosizdat, 1921.

Lacis, M. Ia. (Sudrabs, J.). Dva goda bor’by na vnutrennem fronte. Moscow: Gosizdat, 1920.

*Mlechin, Leonid. KGB: predsedateli organov bezopasnosti. Moscow: Tsentrpoligraf, 2001.

*Nekrasov, V. F. Trinadtsat’ «zheleznykh» narkomov. Moscow: Viorsty, 1995.

Papchinskii, A. A., Tumshis, M. A. Shchit, raskolotyi mechom: NKVD protiv VChK. Moscow: Sovremennik, 2001.

Petrov, M. N. VChK-OGPU: pervoe desiatiletie. Novgorod, 1995.

Popoff, George. The Tcheka: The Red Inquisition. London: Philpot, 1925.

*Sokolov, B. V. Narkomy strakha. Moscow: AST, 2001.

*Stoliarov, K. A. Palachi i zhertvy. Moscow, 1997.

Sudoplatov, Pavel. Spetsoperatsii: Lubianka i Kreml’ 1930–1950 gody. Moscow: Olma, 1997.

Sysoev, N. G. Zhandarmy i chekisty. Ot Benkendorfa do Iagody. Moscow: Veche, 2002.

Zhukovskii, V. S. Lubianskaia imperiia NKVD. Moscow: Veche, 2001.

20 let VChk-OGPU-NKVD. Moscow, 1937.

BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL

Blobaum, Robert. Feliks Dzierzynski and the SDKPil. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984.

Dzieryska, Zofia. Lata wielkich bojów. Warsaw: Ksiaņka i Wiedza, 1969.

, Feliks. Listy do siostry Aldony. Warsaw, 1951.

, Feliks. Pisma wybrane. Warsaw: Ksiaņka i Wiedza, 1952.

Feliks Dzierzynski: we wspomnieniach i wypowiedziach. Warsaw, 1951.

Ivanov, A. Neizvestnyi Dzerzhinskii. Moscow, 1993.

Jaxa-Ronickier, Bogdan. Dzierzyski, czerwony kat. Kraków, 1990.

Lacis, M. “i Cheka,” in F. Dzieryski. Moscow, 1931.

Łaątka, Jerzy S. Krwawy apostol. Kraków, 1993.

Zarkhii, S. Narkomput’ F. Dzerzhinskii. Moscow: Transport, 1979.

MENZHINSKY

Gladkov, Teodor; Smirnov, Mikhail. Menzhinskii. Moscow: Molodaia Gvardiia, 1969. O Viacheslave Menzhinskom. Moscow, 1985.

IAGODA

*Il’inskii, Mikhail. Narkom Iagoda. Moscow: Veche, 2002.

Kovaliov, V. A. Dva stalinskikh narkoma. Moscow: Progress, 1995.

EZHOV

Briukhanov, B. B., Shoshkov, E. N. Opravdaniiu ne podlezhit: Ezhov i ezhovsh-china 1936–1938 gg. St. Petersburg, 1998.

*Jansen, Marc; Petrov, Nikita. Stalin’s Loyal Executioner: Ezhov. Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Press, 2002.

*Polianskii, Aleksei. Ezhov. Moscow: Veche, 2001.

BERIA

*Antonov-Ovseenko, A. Beriia. Moscow: AST, 1999.

*Naumov, V. P., Sigachiov, Iu. Lavrentii Beriia, 1953. Stenogramma iiul’skogo plenuma TsK KPSS i drugie dokumenty. Moscow: MFD, 1999.

*Nekrasov, V. F. (ed.). Beria: konets kar’ery. Moscow: Politizdat, 1991.

Rayfield, D. “Beria’s Holocaust” in The Literature of Georgia—A History. Richmond U.K.: Curzon Press, 2000.

Sigua, Aleksandre. Mkvleloba berias k’abinet’shi. Tbilisi: Molodini, 1992.

Sokolov, Boris. Beriia. Sud’ba vsesil’nogo narkoma. Moscow: Veche, 2003.

Toptygin, Aleksei. Neizvestnyi Beriia. St. Petersburg: Neva, 2002.

*Volin, O. “S Berievtsami vo Vladimirskoi tiur’me” and Blagoveshchenskii, F. “V gostiakh u P. A. Sharii” in Minuvshee 7. Moscow: 1992.

OTHER CHEKISTY

Clarke, F. G. The Will of the Wisp (Peter the Painter). Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1983.

Gladkov, Teodor. Nagrada za vernost’—kazn’ (Artuzov). Moscow: Tsentrpoligraf, 2000.

Gore, I., Niedre, O. Martin Lacis—ekists un literats. Riga: Avots, 1989.

*Shteinberg, Valentin. Ekab Peters. Moscow: Izdatel’stvo Politicheskoi Literatury, 1989.

Shteinberg, Valentin. Svecha na vetru. Zemlia (Riga) January 5–February 2, 1993.

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