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Genre/Form: | History Sources |
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Named Person: | Joseph Stalin; Iosif Stalin; Joseph Stalin; Joseph Stalin; Iosif Vissarionovič Stalin |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
J Arch Getty; Oleg V Naumov |
ISBN: | 0300077726 9780300077728 0300094035 9780300094039 |
OCLC Number: | 40783880 |
Description: | xxvii, 635 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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. |
Series Title: | Annals of Communism. |
Responsibility: | J. Arch Getty and Oleg V. Naumov ; translations by Benjamin Sher. |
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"A most illuminating work." Geoffrey A. Hosking, Times Literary Supplement "As an accumulation of fresh material on Stalinism, The Road to Terror has few equals." Robert Service, Evening Standard "This book is the first comprehensive study of the Great Terror of the 1930s based on previously top secret Soviet documents. It will be indispensable for all historians and researchers of communism, the USSR, and Stalinism for many decades to come." Roy A. Medvedev, author of Let History Judge "This book will be of great value to students of the Terror and the material, such as Bukharin's last letter, is astounding." Michael J. Ybarra, Wall Street Journal "A riveting and important work." Virginia Quarterly Review "The authors attempt to escape from the sterility of so much purge writing... This is an elegant and persuasive thesis." Chris Ward, American Historical Review Read more...

