Format:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 294 Seiten)
ISBN:
9780511626012
Content:
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 of the terror and patterns of persecution, while providing more empirically founded and substantiated estimates of the numbers of Stalin's victims. Some contributors tap unexplored or underutilized source materials while others have taken advantage of glasnost and the opening of Soviet archives and libraries for the years of the terror to draw on freshly available archival and secondary materials. Many of the essays are informed by distinct trends in social and political history, and they approach Stalinist terror with fresh methods and perspectives. The volume supplements works that have focused exclusively on Stalin's personality by concentrating instead on preconditions, mentalities, economics, and specific groups. Although Stalin remains the central personality in the terror, other leaders, institutions, and social groups played important roles, and by analyzing them the essays in the volume help to provide a more complete and balanced view of the phenomenon of the terror as a whole
Content:
Narkom Ezhov / Boris A. Starkov -- The politics of repression revisited / J. Arch Getty -- The second coming : class enemies in the Soviet countryside, 1927-1935 / Lynne Viola -- The omnipresent conspiracy : on Soviet imagery of politics and social relations in the 1930s / Gábor T. Rittersporn -- The Soviet economic crisis of 1936-1940 and the great purges / Roberta T. Manning -- The Stakhanovite movement : the background to the Great Terror in the factories, 1935-1938 / Robert Thurston -- The Great Terror on the local level : purges in Moscow factories, 1936-1938 / David L. Hoffman -- The Great Purges in a rural district : Belyi Raion revisited / Roberta T. Manning -- The Red Army and the Great Purges / Roger R. Reese -- Stalinist terror in the Donbas : a note / Hiroaki Kuromiya -- Patterns of repression among the Soviet elite in the late 1930s : a biographical approach / J. Arch Getty and William Chase -- The impact of the Great Purges on Soviet elites : a case study from Moscow and Leningrad telephone directories of the 1930s / Sheila Fitzpatrick -- Victims of Stalinism : how many? / Alec Nove -- More light on the scale of repression and excess mortality in the Soviet Union in the 1930s / Stephen G. Wheatcroft
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521441254
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521446709
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Stalinist terror Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 1993 ISBN 0521441250
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0521446708
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Sowjetunion
;
Geschichte 1927-1939
;
Stalinismus
;
Moskauer Schauprozesse
;
Säuberung
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Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511626012
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