1961–
The Moscow history teacher who read the Great Terror through its regional statistics
He holds that Stalin's single best deed was that in October 1941 he did not leave Moscow.
A historian who has studied the Stalin-era security organs while working as a history teacher and school head in Moscow. After a first study of the struggle inside the NKVD leadership (2006) he published The "Bloody Dwarf" against the Leader of the Peoples: The Yezhov Conspiracy (2009) and Stalin and the NKVD (2013), reconstructing how the Great Terror was carried out through its regional statistical variation and through the networks of Chekist clans such as Yevdokimov's 'North Caucasians'. He is the author of the two monographs in this reference library.
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Career Timeline
- 2006Published The Struggle in the NKVD Leadership, 1936-1938
- 2009Published The "Bloody Dwarf" against the Leader of the Peoples
- 2013Published Stalin and the NKVD