Сталин и его подручные

Stalin, like Hitler and other tyrants, relied on a whole pack of accomplices capable of anything. Coordinating and directing their activities, however, he was not the only author and executor of each of the diabolical worlds in its cruelty.
What pushes people like Dzerzhinsky, Menzhinsky, Yagoda, Yezhov, Beria to terrible crimes? What were their goals? And who exactly were these people? British researcher Donald Rayfield reconstructs the organization and functioning of this pyramid of power and proves that Stalin was as dependent on the executioners who served him as they were dependent on him.