A Death in Washington: Walter G. Krivitsky and the Stalin Terror

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ISBN: 9781929631254 | 1929631251
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Copyright: 12/1/2004

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Walter G. Krivitsky, the master spy, was the first and one of the key defectors to warn the West early on about the Stalin regime. Krivitsky provided the British with clues that would have unmasked the Philby Spy Group, but was found out by Anthony Blunt, who warned Moscow. One month later Krivitsky was found dead in Washington, D.C.

Introduction by Nigel West

xiii

Abbreviations and Terms

xix

Preface to the Paperback Edition

xxiii

PART I The Killing Machine: Lies, Torture and Execution

(June 1899-October 1937)

1. New Songs of Freedom

(10)

2. Legal and Illegal

(13)

3. The Counterfeiting Caper

(9)

4. Fascism on the March

(8)

5. Antiquarian in The Hague

(10)

6. The Other War in Spain

(15)

7. The Gemini Defectors

(7)

8. New Year in Moscow

(7)

9. The Stalin Terror

(12)

10. How Heroes Were Broken

(9)

11. One Gigantic Madhouse

103

(10)

12. The NKVD Loyalty Test

113

(11)

13. A World Gone Forever

124

(7)

14. The Last Straw

131

(8)

PART II No Man's Land: Spies, Betrayal and Assassination

(October 1937-November 1938)

15. Kruzia

139

(7)

16. TULIP, SONNY BOY and RESENTMENT

146

(10)

17. The Doomed World

156

(6)

18. A Checklist of Assassinations

162

(7)

PART III The New World: Friends, Bureaucrats and Fellow Travelers

(November 1938-November 1940)

19. Man Without a Country

169

(13)

20. Comrades on Times Square

182

(7)

21. The Odd Couple

189

(6)

22. The Adventures of Shmelka Ginsberg

195

(8)

23. Aliens

203

(9)

24. The Fantastic Falsehood

212

(9)

25. The Committee, the Crook and Cultural Freedom

221

(12)

26. Empowerment and Expulsion

233

(14)

27. In Transit

247

(10)

28. In His Majesty's Service

257

(24)

29. The Life of a File

281

(9)

30. Promotion to No. 1

290

(11)

PART IV End of the Line: Hope, Despair and Suicide

(November 1940-February 1941)

31. Homo Sovieticus

301

(6)

32. In Search of a Good Chicken Farm

307

(12)

33. Last Visits

319

(8)

34. Last Days

327

(11)

35. A Botched Job

338

(11)

36. Who Killed Krivitsky?

349

(8)

37. The Suicide Notes

357

(14)

38. The Impossible Suicide

371

(12)

PART V Aftermath

(February 1941-February 1996)

39. Running Amok

383

(4)

40. The FBI File

387

(10)

41. Fates

397

(5)

42. Conclusion

402

(5)

Selected Bibliography

407

(10)

Notes

417

(70)

Index

487

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A Death in Washington: Walter G. Krivitsky and the Stalin Terror

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