The Road to Terror. * Staling and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939

The Road to Terror

Staling and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939

Now updated with new facts, and abridged for use in Soviet history courses, this gripping book assembles top secret Soviet documents, translated into English, from the era of Stalin’s purges. The dossiers, police reports, private letters, secret transcripts, and other documents expose the hidden inner workings of the Communist Party and the dark inhumanity of the purge process.

“[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

“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

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Notes on Transliteration and Terminology

A Note on Sources and Citations

Introduction

part I. The Fork in the Road

1. The New Situation, 1930-31 21
2. Party Discipline in 1932 45

3. Repression and Legality

4. Growing Tensión in 1935

5. The Fork in the Road

part II. The Terror

6.The Face of the Enemy, 1936 109

7. The Sky Darkens

8. The Storm of 1937: The Party Commits Suicide
9. Ending the Terror, 1938 196

10. Two Bolsheviks

Conclusion

Appendixes

Notes

Index

 

AUTORES: J. ARCH GETTY and OLEG V. NAUMOV

MÁS TÍTULOS RELACIONADOS: HISTORIA CONTEMPORÁNEA