The story of the Latvian shooters. From the first Marxists

The first biographical reference book of Latvian revolutionaries. From the first Marxists to partisans and underground workers of the Great Patriotic War. Latvian militants are participants in the fighting with the tsarist troops and the police during the first Russian revolution of 1905-1907. Red Latvian arrows in the 1917 revolution and during the Civil War. Party and military careers in the USSR, from the Cheka to the KGB. Pro -Soviet opposition in bourgeois Latvia between the two world wars. Participation in the post -war strengthening of Soviet power is all on the pages of this book.
960 biographies of Latvian revolutionaries, party and military figures. Sources in the Latvian language were used, previously unknown and inaccessible to the Russian -speaking reader and other researchers. More than 300 photo portraits are attached to biographical certificates. The book is equipped with a historical essay and reference material