Beria - le janus du kremlin
Editeur : Cerf
Numéro de produit : 9782204108171
ISBN : 9782204108171
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Bourreau en chef de l'URSS ? Maître espion de Staline ? Bolchevik exemplaire ? Patriote géorgien ? Promoteur de la bombe atomique communiste ? Larbin docile ? Prédateur sexuel ? Qui fut réellement Beria ? L'histoire et la contre-histoire officielles, les dizaines de biographies qui lui ont été consacrées depuis sa chute vertigineuse en 1953 présentent tour à tour ces différents visages. Du Caucase à Moscou, des coulisses du Politburo aux couloirs des ambassades, du Goulag à l'opération Barbarossa, de purges en complots, c'est ce destin paradoxal que raconte ici Françoise Thom en l'inscrivant dans l'épopée du plus grand et du plus sanglant des empires qui ait jamais existé. Face à l'absurdité d'un système qu'il connaissait mieux que quiconque, Beria en fut le premier dénonciateur. Si Staline le surnommait « mon Himmler », Beria restera pourtant le précurseur de la déstalinisation et de la perestroika. Fruit d'une enquête longue de dix années à partir des dernières archives soviétiques mises au jour, ce livre sans précédent lève le voile sur le « mystère Beria » et, révélant la lace cachée du Janus du Kremlin, offre une relecture globale, novatrice et surprenante de l'histoire secrète du totalitarisme rouge.
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The USSR's head executioner? Stalin's master spy? The model Bolshevik? A Georgian patriot? Promoter of the Communist atomic bomb? A docile dogsbody? A sexual predator? Who exactly was Beria? Official History and counter-history, the dozens of biographies that have been devoted to him since his vertiginous fall in 1953, they present all these different faces of the man in turn. From Caucasus to Moscow, from behind the scenes in the Politburo to embassies, from the Gulag to Operation Barbarossa, with all the purges to plots, the paradoxical destiny of Beria is recounted here by Françoise Thom, who sets in in its context: the epic of the greatest and most bloody empire the world has ever known. Beria was first to denounce a system whose absurdity he knew better than any other. Stalin may have called him 'My Himmler' - Beria nevertheless remained the harbinger of de-Stalinisation and perestroika. The fruit of a ten-year long investigation of the latest Soviet archives made available to the public, this unprecedented book lifts the veil on the 'Beria mystery'. Laying bare the obscured face of the Kremlin's Janus, it offers a global vision – innovating and surprising – of the secret history of Communist totalitarianism.
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The USSR's head executioner? Stalin's master spy? The model Bolshevik? A Georgian patriot? Promoter of the Communist atomic bomb? A docile dogsbody? A sexual predator? Who exactly was Beria? Official History and counter-history, the dozens of biographies that have been devoted to him since his vertiginous fall in 1953, they present all these different faces of the man in turn. From Caucasus to Moscow, from behind the scenes in the Politburo to embassies, from the Gulag to Operation Barbarossa, with all the purges to plots, the paradoxical destiny of Beria is recounted here by Françoise Thom, who sets in in its context: the epic of the greatest and most bloody empire the world has ever known. Beria was first to denounce a system whose absurdity he knew better than any other. Stalin may have called him 'My Himmler' - Beria nevertheless remained the harbinger of de-Stalinisation and perestroika. The fruit of a ten-year long investigation of the latest Soviet archives made available to the public, this unprecedented book lifts the veil on the 'Beria mystery'. Laying bare the obscured face of the Kremlin's Janus, it offers a global vision – innovating and surprising – of the secret history of Communist totalitarianism.
