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020407
Kevorkov, V.E Ispoved` pered Kazn`iu
[ Confession before the death penalty]
Moscow: Sovershenno Sekretno, 2005
256 p. [8 ill.]
Hardcover. 13.5 x 21 cm
ISBN: 5890481592
Language: RussianThis is a story about the end of career and life of the almighty head of SMERSh Viktor Abakumov (1908-1954). He became the head of the soviet military intelligence service in 1933, and stayed in this office until the victory of WWII. Later he was the head of the Ministry of GB (1945-1950) and ended his life in jail. He spent three years in prison without trial, and was shot within an hour after his sentence was passed. His sentence and immediate death was sanctioned by the new political leader Nikita Khrushchev. The author of this book Viacheslav Kevorkov, an officer of the KGB since 1954, and later CEO of the soviet information agency TASS, wrote down memoirs of the KGB investigator Ivan Eliseev. Also available by the same author: Kremlevskaia Operetka: Politicheskii Triller (1997).
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