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Lavrenti Beria: (1899-1953) Soviet security and intelligence official, who rose from the Cheka until becoming Head of State security; managed Soviet nuclear program; attempted to assume power after the death of Joseph Stalin but was executed by a coalition of other seekers of power [e]
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Parent topics
- Soviet Union [r]: A Communist state, which took over the Russian Empire, after the Russian Revolution of 1917 that existed from 1922 to 1991; the major part now extant as the Russian Federation [e]
- Organs of State Security [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Cheka [r]: Initial Communist secret police formed by the Bolsheviks; chekist became a generic Soviet term for the many-named successor Organs of State Security [e]
- Organs of State Security [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Joseph Stalin [r]: (1878 - 1953) The head of Russia's Communist ("Bolshevik") party and dictator of the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death. [e]
Subtopics
- Great Terror [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Genrikh Yagoda [r]: (1891-1938) Chief of the Soviet secret police and civilian intelligence at the start of the Great Terror, 1934-1936, purged and eventually executed [e]
- Nikolai Yezhov [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gulag [r]: The system of forced labor camps of the Soviet Union, often considered a state within a state; acronym for the Soviet bureaucratic institution, Glavnoe Upravlenie ispravitel’no-trudovykh LAGerei (Main Administration of Corrective Labor Camps) [e]
- Yalta Conference [r]: The last Second World War summit meeting involving Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston S. Churchill and Josef Stalin; set policy for the Occupation of Germany; agreed to set up the United Nations; established policy against Japan [e]
- Soviet nuclear weapons [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Operation Borodino [r]: Soviet program to build a fission device, analogous to the Manhattan Project, under the policy direction of Lavrenti Beria, technical direction of Igor Kurchatov with Yuli Khariton as head of the weapons laboratory at Sarov/Arzamas-16 [e]
- Pavel Sudoplatov [r]: Add brief definition or description