Watchdogs of terror : Russian bodyguards from the Tsars to the commissars

FOREWORD: "For some ten years, I was a Russian counter intelligence officer and bodyguard, serving during the end of the Stalin era, a time when the system of protecting a national leadership had reached a technical perfection still unattained elsewhere in the world. ..." Foreword. I. Pre-Bolshevik Bloody Russia. II. Tsarist Bodyguards. III. Communist Bloody Russia. IV. Pre-Stalin Communist Bodyguards. V. Early Stalinist Bodyguard System. VI. Bodyguards of an Entrenched Stalin. VII. The Years of Trouble. Epilogue. Appendices I-VI. Bibliography. Index. Russian Bodyguards From the Tsars to the Commissars by Peter Deriabin 1972 Hardcover [by] Peter Deriabin. Bibliography: P. [427]-439.