Amy Knight, Author . Carroll & Graf $27.95 (355p) ISBN 978-0-7867-1816-0
An expert in Russian politics, Knight (Beria: Stalin's First Lieutenant
) mars this otherwise excellent in-depth portrait of a Soviet defector with inflated claims. Igor Gouzenko, a cipher clerk in the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa, defected with his
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Amy Knight, Author Princeton University Press $55 (312p) ISBN 978-0-691-03257-3
As Stalin's police chief, right-hand man and commander of the Gulag slave-labor network, Lavrenty Beria (1899-1953) was a mass murderer whose weapons included torture, deportation and execution. Yet, after Stalin died in 1953, this devious, cold-bloo
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Amy Knight, Author Princeton University Press $55 (318p) ISBN 978-0-691-02577-3
As the old French adage goes: The more things change, the more they stay the same. The KGB has been no exception. Since 1989, it has been divided into six supposedly autonomous bureaus, which-with subgroups-incorporate enough acronyms to stock an...
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Amy Knight, Author Hill & Wang $26 (336p) ISBN 978-0-8090-6404-5
The 1934 assassination of Sergei Kirov, the Leningrad Communist Party chief and a rising star in Stalin's inner circle, marked the beginning of one of the darkest periods of Russian history--Stalin's Great Terror, in which millions of Soviet...
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Amy Knight. Thomas Dunne, $27.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-250-11934-6
Knight (How the Cold War Began), a veteran Russia expert and historian of its security services, provides a grim, relentless compilation of seemingly state-sponsored murders, suggesting that the abstract threat that Russia poses to the U.S. pales in
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