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Author Lenoe, Matthew E. (Matthew Edward)

Title The Kirov murder and Soviet history / Matthew E. Lenoe ; translations by Matthew E. Lenoe ; documents compiled by Mikhail Prozumenshchikov
Published New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 833 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Annals of Communism series
Annals of Communism.
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translation, Transliteration, and Dates -- Note on Soviet Government and Territorial Structures -- Note on the Documents and Citations -- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations -- List of Archives Cited -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. From Kostrikov to Kirov, 1886-1925 -- Chapter 2. Conquering Leningrad, 1925-1929 -- Chapter 3. Kirov in Leningrad, 1930-1934 -- Chapter 4. The Scene of the Crime -- Chapter 5. Leonid Nikolaev -- Chapter 6. Nikolaev Agonistes -- Chapter 7. Stalin Responds -- Chapter 8. Fingering the Zinovievites -- Chapter 9. The Trials of the Moscow and Leningrad "Centers" -- Chapter 10. Investigating the Leningrad NKVD -- Chapter 11. The Kirov Murder and the Great Terror -- Chapter 12. Rumors, Speculation, and the Martyr Cult -- Chapter 13. The Kirov Murder in the West, 1934-1956 -- Chapter 14. The Politics of Rehabilitation and the Kirov Murder, 1953-1957 -- Chapter 15. Shatunovskaya's Investigation and After -- Conclusion -- Appendix. Biographical Sketches -- Notes -- Index of Documents -- General Index
Summary Drawing on hundreds of newly available, top-secret KGB and party Central Committee documents, historian Matthew E. Lenoe reexamines the 1934 assassination of Leningrad party chief Sergei Kirov. Joseph Stalin used the killing as the pretext to unleash the Great Terror that decimated the Communist elite in 1937-1938; these previously unavailable documents raise new questions about whether Stalin himself ordered the murder, a subject of speculation since 1938. The book includes translations of 125 documents from the various investigations of the Kirov murder, allowing readers to reach their own conclusions about Stalin's involvement in the assassination
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject 880-01 Kirov, Sergeĭ Mironovich, 1886-1934 -- Assassination
SUBJECT 880-01/(N Киров, Сергей Миронович, 1886-1934 -- Assassination
Subject Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953
SUBJECT Kirov, Sergeĭ Mironovich, 1886-1934 fast
Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953 fast
Subject 880-02 Kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ Sovetskogo Soi︠u︡za -- Purges.
SUBJECT 880-02/(N Коммунистическая партия Советского Союза -- Purges
Kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ Sovetskogo Soi︠u︡za fast
Kommunističeskaja partija Sovetskogo Sojuza -- utrensningar. sao
Subject Political purges -- Soviet Union -- History
Political atrocities -- Soviet Union -- History
Assassination
Political atrocities
Political purges
SUBJECT Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125814
Subject Soviet Union
Sovjetunionen -- historia -- 1900-talet.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780300142426
0300142420