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Author Getty, J. Arch (John Arch), 1950-

Title The road to terror : Stalin and the self-destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939 / J. Arch Getty and Oleg V. Naumov ; translations by Benjamin Sher
Published New Haven, Conn : Yale University Press, ©1999

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Description 1 online resource (xxvii, 635 pages) : illustrations
Series Annals of Communism
Annals of Communism.
Contents Introduction: Party documents and Bolshevik mentality -- Part I. Closing ranks. The new situation, 1930-32 -- Party discipline in 1932 -- Repression and legality -- Growing tension in 1935 -- Screening cadres -- The fork in the road -- Pat II. The terror. The face of the enemy, 1936 -- The tide turns -- The sky darkens -- Party discipline and the fall of Bukharin -- The storm of 1937: the party commits suicide -- Ending the terror, 1938 -- Two Bolsheviks
Summary "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 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."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Print version record
Subject Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953 -- Sources
SUBJECT Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953 fast
Subject Kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ Sovetskogo Soi︠u︡za -- Purges -- Sources
SUBJECT Kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ Sovetskogo Soi︠u︡za fast
Subject Political purges -- Soviet Union -- History -- Sources
Terrorism -- Soviet Union -- Sources
HISTORY.
Political purges
Politics and government
Terrorism
Bolsjewisme.
Terrorisme.
SUBJECT Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936 -- Sources
Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1936-1953 -- Sources
Subject Soviet Union
Genre/Form History
Sources
Bronnen (vorm)
Form Electronic book
Author Naumov, Oleg V
ISBN 0585368333
9780585368337
9780300133103
0300133103
0300094035
9780300094039
9780300077728
0300077726