num_pages: 635
description: This gripping book assembles and translates into English for the first time top secret Soviet documents from 1932 to 1939, the era of the Stalin purges. The nearly 200 documents -- dossiers, police reports, private letters, secret transcripts, and more -- expose the hidden inner workings of the Communist Party and the dark inhumanity of the purge process.
language: English
title: The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939
titlecomplete: The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939
genres: Biography, Soviet History, Soviet Union, Russia, Politics, History, European History, Russian Revolution, Nonfiction, Russian History
ratings_count: 183
series: Annals of Communism
publisher: Yale University Press