Stalin and His Hangmen : The Tyrant and Those Who Killed for Him by Donald Rayfield (Digest de ce livre ) Crimes of the Century, This is an interesting and well researched work (which uses a large range of sources - recently released archives, private letters, memoirs, etc.) that focuses more on Stalin’s "hangmen" than the dictator himself. Feliks Dzierzynski, Viacheslav Menzhinsky, Genrikh Iagoda, Nikolai Ezhov, and Lavrenti Beria were the five heads of (...)

BOLSHEVIKS :
Lenin (5th on Rudolph Rummel’s list of the "This Century’s Bloodiest Dictators" http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/DBG.TAB1.4.GIF)
Stalin (Originally educated in a Seminary, he went on to become the most blood-stained person who ever lived, #1 on Rummel’s list. Stalin’s crimes include artifical famines, deportations of entire nationalities, extensive expansion of the Gulag, and massive purges of party officials.)
Georgi Konstantinovich "Sergo" Ordzhonikidze (Soviet leader in (...)