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Arkady Vaksberg (1933–2011)

Autor(a) de Stalin Against the Jews

16 Works 169 Membros 4 Reviews

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Obras de Arkady Vaksberg

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Conhecimento Comum

Nome de batismo
Ваксберг, Аркадий Иосифович
Vaksberg, Arkady Iosifovich
Data de nascimento
1933-11-11
Data de falecimento
2011-05-08
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
Russia
Local de nascimento
Novosibirsk, Soviet Union
Local de falecimento
Moscow, Russia
Locais de residência
Paris, France
Educação
Moscow State University
Ocupação
lawyer
writer
Organizações
Literaturnaya Gazeta

Membros

Resenhas

Trenchant biography of one of the 20th century's least sympathetic figures, Andrei Vyshinsky, who was the prosecutor at many of the Moscow Show Trials of the 1930s. The author apparently had access to certain files during the brief window of opportunity in the late 1980s and early 1990s (the book came out in 1990) to examine Vyshinky's own files. It paints a picture of a bully and coward, and one that rose to the top of the legal profession in Stalinist Russia on the bodies of thousands. Probably a book you would not see published in Russia today. Recommended.… (mais)
 
Marcado
EricCostello | Jan 15, 2019 |
Trop de choses à dire dans trop peu d'espace? En tout beaucoup d'éléments très pertinents, et la constatation terrible que l'on s'habitue à l'incroyable, au monstrueux.
 
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Nikoz | Oct 12, 2016 |
Even the most evil of men must have lieutenants willing to carry out their orders. Vyshinsky was that and more for Stalin. A piece of Soviet history doomed to be forgotten, except by Russians.
½
 
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Borg-mx5 | 1 outra resenha | Apr 7, 2010 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
16
Membros
169
Popularidade
#126,057
Avaliação
½ 3.3
Resenhas
4
ISBNs
32
Idiomas
6

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