1937
Subtitle: Stalin's year of terror
By: Vadim Z. Rogovin ; translated by Frederick S. Choate.
Publisher: Mehring Books
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Oak Park, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 550
Subjects: Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953.; Kommunisticheskai͡a︡ partii͡a︡ Sovetskogo Soi͡u︡za -- Purges.; Political purges -- Soviet Union -- History.; Opposition (Political science) -- Soviet Union -- History.; Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1936-1953.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 501-517) and indexes.