Beria My Father: Inside Stalin's Kremlin

Beria My Father: Inside Stalin's Kremlin by Beria, Sergo. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780715630624.

For almost twenty years two men from Georgia dominated the Russians and its empire: Stalin and Beria as head of what was to become the KGB. This book is a memoir of daily life with these two men who sent millions to their graves. It vividly paints Stalins increasingly psychotic nature and the dread that pervaded everyones life, even that of Beria, but also the incomprehensible loyalty that Stalin inspired among women such as the authors mother, also a Georgian. It also contains Sergios anecdotes like the time Svetlana, Stalins nymphomaniac daughter, chased him. Upon Stalins mysterious death, Beria dramatically lost the struggle for power with Khrushchev, a Russian, who murdered him with the aid of his fellow politburo members. More than any book currently available, this extraordinary document shows what it was like to grow up at the top in a duplicitous and deeply immoral and violent atmosphere.