Donald Rayfield

Stalin and His Hangmen: The Tyrant and Those Who Killed for Him (2005)

I bought Donald Rayfield’s Stalin and his Hangmen six or seven years while I was studying modern Russian history in sixth form at school. I never read it, though, because it was squeezed out by another book published at about the same time – Stalin: the Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Monte...