Enemies within the Gates?
Subtitle: The Comintern and the Stalinist Repression, 1934-1939
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: November 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 592
ISBN-13: 9780300082425
Subjects: European history: from c 1900 -; Marxism & Communism; Political oppression & persecution; Political structure & processes; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; Communism; History; History - General History; History: World; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; History / Russia (pre- & post-Soviet Union); Political Ideologies - Communism & Socialism; 1936-1953; Communist International; Political persecution; Politics and government; Soviet Union
Description: "This work of documentary history tells a story of idealism betrayed, a story of how the Comintern (Communist International), an organization established by Lenin in 1919 to direct and assist revolutionary movements throughout the world, participated in and was ultimately destroyed by the Stalinist repression in the late 1930s. Presenting and drawing on recently declassified archival documents, William J. Chase analyzes the Comintern's roles as agent, instrument, and victim of terror."--BOOK JACKET.