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Author: John Arch Getty
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1993-06-25
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780521446709
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese 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.
Author: M. Ilic
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2006-03-28
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 0230597335
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.
Author: John Arch Getty
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1987-01-30
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780521335706
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Melanie Ilic
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2006-06-13
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781403947055
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: J. Arch Getty
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 0300142412
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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].
Author: Jörg Baberowski
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2016-01-01
Total Pages: 513
ISBN-13: 0300136986
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCover -- 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
Author: Hiroaki Kuromiya
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780521526081
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Robert Conquest
Publisher: Bodley Head Childrens
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781847925688
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRobert 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.
Author: Stéphane Courtois
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 920
ISBN-13: 9780674076082
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Eric Hoffer
Publisher: Time Life Medical
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780809436026
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