Loyal Comrades Ruthless Killers Author:Slava Katamidze A candid and revealing history of the secret services of the Soviet Union. Written by a former member of the Soviet military, it analyzes the development of the secret services from the Cheka through to the KGB and their role in such events as the attacks on the peasantry of the 1920s, the Great Purge of the 1930s and the creation of the Gulag c... more »amp system. Chilling, authoritative and highly readable, it presents a fresh sland on twentieth-century history.« less