7 Ergebnisse.

This book brings together twelve essays by senior historians who, after decades of study, reflect on the 'hows' and 'whys' of Stalinism as an authoritarian dictatorship determined to build a version of socialism in the Soviet Union at all costs"--

Examines a number of case studies of political practices in the Stalin era and beyond.

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Subtitled, "The Times & Life Of N.I. Yezhov". Examines the life of the secret police chief.

Subtitled, "Stalin & The Bolsheviks, 1932-1939". An updated and abridged edition.

This 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 38. 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...

This collection of essays contributes to the understanding of Stalinist terror in the 1930s.