Origins of the Great Purges The Soviet Communist Party Reconsidered, 1933-1938

Name: Origins of the Great Purges The Soviet Communist Party Reconsidered, 1933-1938
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ISBN: 9780521335706

ISBN-10: 0521335701

ISBN-13: 9780521335706

Edition: 1987

Authors: J. Arch Getty

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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 system. The Moscow leadership, of which Stalin was the most authoritarian actor, reacted to social and political processes as much as instigating them. Because of disputes, confusion, and inefficiency, they often pushed contradictory policies. Avoiding the usual concentration on Stalin's personality, the author puts forward the controversial hypothesis that the Great Purges…

Book details

List price: $62.99
Copyright year: 1987
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/30/1987
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.26" wide x 8.62" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



List of tables


Preface


Introduction: the Great Purges as history



The Communist Party in the thirties



What was a purge?



The Verification of Party Documents of 1935: a case study in bureaucratic ineptitude



Radicalism and party revival



Radicalism and enemies of the people



The crisis matures: 1937



Epilogue: the Ezhovshchina


Conclusion: some observations on politics in the thirties


Appendix: the Kirov assassination


Bibliographic essay


Notes


Index