The great terror
Subtitle: Stalin's purge of the thirties.
Edition: [1st American ed.]
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1968
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 633
Subjects: Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953; Kommunisticheskai͡a︡ partii͡a︡ Sovetskogo Soi͡u︡za -- Purges; Political purges -- Soviet Union; Terrorism -- Soviet Union -- History; Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1936-1953
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the roots of terror -- Stalin prepares -- The Kirov murder -- Architect of terror -- Old Bolsheviks confess -- The problem of confession -- Last stand -- Assault on the army -- The party crushed -- A nation in torment -- In the labour camps -- The great trial -- The foreign element -- Climax -- Epilogue : heritage of terror -- Appendix A : casualty figures -- Appendix B : Lenin on his successors -- Appendix C : politburo membership, 1919 - 1938 -- Appendix D : The 1934 Central Committee -- Appendix E : The NKVD background -- Appendix F : Earlier Soviet trials -- Appendix G : Article 8 of the Criminal Codex of the RSFSR.