Stalinist confessions
Subtitle: messianism and terror at the Leningrad Communist University
By: Igal Halfin.
Series: Pitt series in Russian and East European studies
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, Pa
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780822943679; 9780822960164
Subjects: Stalin, Joseph, -- 1879-1953 -- Influence; Leningradskiĭ kommunisticheskiĭ universitet -- History; Soviet Union. -- Narodnyĭ komissariat vnutrennikh del; Higher education and state -- Soviet Union -- History; College students -- Soviet Union -- Political activity -- History; Messianism, Political -- Soviet Union -- History; State-sponsored terrorism -- Soviet Union -- History; Political purges -- Soviet Union -- History; Political psychology -- History -- 20th century; Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1936-1953
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The Revolution devours its children; title: The winds of purge; title: The NKVD and the extraction of confessions; title: Pandemonium at Communist University; title: Messianic times; title: The final curtain; title: Epilogue: The truth of sacrifice.