The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939
by Getty, J. Arch, and Naumov, Oleg V.; Sher, Benjamin (Translations by)
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New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999. xxvii, 635 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Annals of Communism Series. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Lower right corners lightly bumped. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. "The vast and complex tragedy of Stalin's purges, culminating in the Great Terror, made victims of millions of Russians between 1932 and 1939. This gripping book assembles and translates into English for the first time an astonishing array of formerly top secret Soviet documents from that period. Exposing to daylight the hidden inner workings of the Communist Party and the dark inhumanity of the purge process, these documents immeasurably deepen our understanding of an agonizing episode of Soviet history. From dossiers on the liquidated Soviet elite to police reports of peasant unrest to private letters from victims and purgers to secret transcripts of Central Committee meetings, the nearly two hundred documents presented here confirm Stalin's role as executor of the terror. Yet the top party elite, or nomenklatura, were also key to the unfolding of a terror that proceeded with fits and starts, moves and countermoves, and steps toward and away from the abyss. From 1932 to early 1937 Stalin and the nomenklatura agreed on the need to destroy all dissidents, to stage show trials, to carry out mass arrests, purges, and shootings, and to prevent any resistance to these 'cleansings.' Eventually deep insecurities that magnified any opposition and iron discipline within the party led the nomenklatura to support Stalin in purging their own colleagues, and in 1937 and 1938 they serially voted one another into prison." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo.
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- Title
- The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939
- Author
- Getty, J. Arch, and Naumov, Oleg V.; Sher, Benjamin (Translations by)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
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- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0300077726
- ISBN 13
- 9780300077728
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven, CT
- Date Published
- 1999
- Size
- 8vo
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