Stalinist Terror

Stalinist Terror

Author: John Arch Getty

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1993-06-25

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9780521446709

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These essays by scholars from six nations offers contributions to the understanding of Stalinist terror in the 1930s. The essays explore in depth the background of the terror and patterns of persecution, while providing more empirically founded estimates of the numbers of Stalin's victims.


Stalin’s Terror Revisited

Stalin’s Terror Revisited

Author: M. Ilic

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2006-03-28

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 0230597335

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In this ground-breaking collection, a team of leading experts offer a detailed examination of under-researched aspects of Soviet political repression in the 1930s. Drawing on archival documents and materials that have received little attention in Western historiography, much of the information detailed here is in English for the first time.


Origins of the Great Purges

Origins of the Great Purges

Author: John Arch Getty

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1987-01-30

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780521335706

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This is a study of the structure of the Soviet Communist Party in the 1930s. Based upon archival and published sources, the work describes the events in the Bolshevik Party leading up to the Great Purges of 1937-1938. Professor Getty concludes that the party bureaucracy was chaotic rather than totalitarian, and that local officials had relative autonomy within a considerably fragmented political system. The Moscow leadership, of which Stalin was the most authoritarian actor, reacted to social and political processes as much as instigating them. Because of disputes, confusion, and inefficiency, they often promoted contradictory policies. Avoiding the usual concentration on Stalin's personality, the author puts forward the controversial hypothesis that the Great Purges occurred not as the end product of a careful Stalin plan, but rather as the bloody but ad hoc result of Moscow's incremental attempts to centralise political power.


Stalin's Terror Revisited

Stalin's Terror Revisited

Author: Melanie Ilic

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2006-06-13

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9781403947055

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This is a detailed examination of three under-researched aspects of Soviet political repression in the 1930s: case studies of regional and sectoral dimensions of the purges; "victim studies" of the Great Terror; and an assessment of the impact of political repression on Soviet economic development in the late 1930s. Much of the information detailed here is presented to the English language readership for the first time.


Road to Terror

Road to Terror

Author: J. Arch Getty

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2010-01-01

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 0300142412

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"Now updated with new facts, and abridged for use in Soviet history courses, this gripping book assembles top-secret Soviet documents, translated into English, from the era of Stalin's purges. The dossiers, police reports, private letters, secret transcripts, and other documents expose the hidden inner workings of the Communist Party and the dark inhumanity of the purge process."[book cover].


Scorched Earth

Scorched Earth

Author: Jörg Baberowski

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2016-01-01

Total Pages: 513

ISBN-13: 0300136986

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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. What Was Stalinism? -- 2. Imperial Spaces of Violence -- 3. Pyrrhic Victories -- 4. Subjugation -- 5. Dictatorship of Dread -- 6. Wars -- 7. Stalin's Heirs -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z


The Great Terror

The Great Terror

Author: Robert Conquest

Publisher: Bodley Head Childrens

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781847925688

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Robert Conquest uses fresh and dramatic material, which has only recently become available, to give further depth and breadth to his history of the momentous years between 1934 and 1939, when millions of people died in Stalin's purges. First publiished in 1968 to universal critical acclaim, this definitive account of Stalin's Terror is reissued with a new introduction which revists the book in light of glasnost.


Freedom and Terror in the Donbas

Freedom and Terror in the Donbas

Author: Hiroaki Kuromiya

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9780521526081

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This book discusses both the freedom of the Ukrainian-Russian borderland of the Donbas and the terror it has suffered because of that freedom. In a detailed panorama the book presents the tumultuous history of the steppe frontier land from its foundation as a modern coal and steel industrial center to the post-Soviet present. Wild and unmanageable, this haven for fugitives posed a constant political challenge to Moscow and Kiev. In light of new information gained from years of work in previously closed Soviet archives (including the former KGB archives in the Donbas), the book presents, from a regional perspective, new interpretations of critical events in modern Ukrainian and Russian history: the Russian Revolution, the famine of 1932-33, the Great Terror, World War II, collaboration, the Holocaust, and de-Stalinization.


The Black Book of Communism

The Black Book of Communism

Author: Stéphane Courtois

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 920

ISBN-13: 9780674076082

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This international bestseller plumbs recently opened archives in the former Soviet bloc to reveal the accomplishments of communism around the world. The book is the first attempt to catalogue and analyse the crimes of communism over 70 years.