Fiftieth anniversary Ed. — The Bodley Head, 2018. — 717 p. — ISBN: 0195316991, 0195317009. Robert Conquest's The Great Terror is the book that revealed the horrors of Stalin's regime to the West. This definitive fiftieth anniversary edition features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum. One of the most important books ever written about the Soviet Union, The Great Terror revealed...
Oxford University Press, 1968. — 584 p. — ISBN: 978-0195055801. The definitive work on Stalin's purges, Robert Conquest's The Great Terror was universally acclaimed when it first appeared in 1968. Harrison Salisbury called it "brilliant...not only an odyssey of madness, tragedy, and sadism, but a work of scholarship and literary craftsmanship." And in recent years it has...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1993. — 308 p. — ISBN10: 0521446708; ISBN13: 978-0521446709 This collection of essays by scholars from five nations - the United States, Great Britain, Australia, France, and Russia - makes several major contributions to the understanding of Stalinist terror in the 1930s. The essays explore in greater depth than before the background...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. - 288 p. Based upon archival and published sources, this book 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...
Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2011. - 320 c. Inventing the Enemy uses stories of personal relationships to explore the behavior of ordinary people in five Moscow factories during Stalin’s terror. Communist Party leaders targeted specific groups for arrest and strongly encouraged Soviet citizens and party members to take an active role in the terror by “unmasking the hidden enemy.”...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013 — 352 p. — ISBN10: 0199655669; ISBN13: 978-0199655663. Stalin's Terror of the 1930s has long been a popular subject for historians. However, while for decades, historians were locked in a narrow debate about the degree of central control over the terror process, recent archival research is underpinning new, innovative approaches and opening...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. — 240 p. — ISBN10: 0199695768; ISBN13: 978-0199695768. Between the winter of 1936 and the autumn of 1938, approximately three quarters of a million Soviet citizens were subject to summary execution. More than a million others were sentenced to lengthy terms in labor camps. Commonly known as "Stalin's Great Terror," these events are also...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. — 254 p. — (Studies in Russian and East European History and Society) The Soviet Economy and the Launching of the Great Terror Economic Officials in the Great Terror, 1936–38 Soviet Trade Unions and the Great Terror The Soviet Penal System and the Great Terror The Forgotten Five per cent: Women, Political Repression and the Purges The Great Terror in...
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