Stalin and His Hangmen: The Tyrant and Those Who Killed for Him - Donald Rayfield (2005)
Part I. THE LONG ROAD TO POWER
Chapter 1. Childhood and Family
Chapter 3. Stalin as a Thinker
Chapter 4. Political Initiation
Part II. STALIN, DZIERZYNSKI, AND THE CHEKA
Chapter 8. Feliks Dzierzynski: The First Forty Years
Chapter 9. The Extraordinary Commission
Chapter 10. Poles, Latvians, and Jews
Chapter 11. The Chekist as Intellectual and Organizer
Chapter 12. Stalin and Dzierzynski in Tandem
Chapter 13. From Cheka to State Political Directorate
Part III. THE EXQUISITE INQUISITOR
Chapter 15. Viacheslav Menzhinsky’s Belated Rise
Chapter 16. Repressing Peasants and Intellectuals
Chapter 17. Control of the Church
Chapter 18. Stalin’s Struggle for Sole Control
Chapter 19. A New Role for OGPU
Part IV. STALIN SOLO
Chapter 20. Clearing the Terrain
Chapter 21. The First Show Trials
Chapter 22. Bringing the Writers to Heel
Chapter 24. Enslaving the Peasantry
Chapter 25. The Peasantry: The Final Solution
Part V. IAGODA’S RISE
Chapter 26. Toward Sole Dictatorship
Chapter 27. Bringing Up a Guard Dog
Chapter 29. Fellow Travelers Abroad and Dissent at Home
Chapter 30. From Unity to Uniformity
Part VI. MURDERING THE OLD GUARD
Chapter 31. The Killing of Sergei Kirov
Chapter 32. Removing Zinoviev and Kamenev
Chapter 34. Women and Children
Chapter 35. Pigs in the Parlor, Peacocks on Parade
Part VII. THE EZHOV BLOODBATH
Chapter 38. The Birth of the Great Terror
Chapter 39. How the Hedgehog Got Its Prickles
Chapter 40. Purging of the Guard
Chapter 41. Targets for Extermination
Chapter 42. The Last Show Trials
Chapter 43. Disarming the Army
Chapter 44. Martyrdom for Poets
Chapter 45. Disposing of Ezhov
Part VIII. THE RISE OF LAVRENTI BERIA
Chapter 47. Beria in the Caucasus
Chapter 49. Mopping Up After Ezhov
Chapter 50. The Last of the Intellectuals
Chapter 52. The Katyn Massacres
Part IX. HANGMEN AT WAR
Chapter 54. “Brothers, Sisters!”
Chapter 55. Beria Shares Power
Chapter 56. Evacuation, Deportation, and Genocide
Chapter 59. The Scent of Freedom
Part X. THE GRATIFICATION OF CRUELTY
Chapter 61. Exploding the Bomb
Chapter 62. Crushing the Last of the Literati
Chapter 63. Jews and Cosmopolitans
Chapter 64. Vengeance on Leningrad