Title: 1937 : Stalin's year of terror /
Authors: Rogovin, V. Z.
Publisher: Mehring Books,
Year: 1998
Subjects: Stalin, Joseph,; Stalin, Joseph,; Kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ Sovetskogo Soi︠u︡za Purges.; Political purges Soviet Union History.; Opposition (Political science) Soviet Union History.; Soviet Union Politics and government
Abstract: The first major study by a Russian Marxist Historian of the Stalinist purges which are often collectively reffered to by the year they reached their greatest intensity: 1937. Rogovin shows that the purges were aimed at the physical annihilation of the growing socialist opposition to Stalin's bureaucratic regime. Focused on Leon Trotsky and his thousands of supporters, the purges were a blow against the October Revolution, its leaders and its heritage.