Descripción
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
- The New Situation, 1930-31 21
- 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
- The Storm of 1937: The Party Commits Suicide
- Ending the Terror, 1938 196
10. Two Bolsheviks
Conclusion
Appendixes
Notes
Index
AUTORES: J. ARCH GETTY and OLEG V. NAUMOV
