Origins of the Great Purges
Subtitle: The Soviet Communist Party Reconsidered, 19331938 (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 30, 1987
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780521335706
Subjects: European history: from c 1900 -; Political Parties; 20th century; Political Process - Political Parties; History - General History; History; History: World; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; General; History / Europe / General; History-Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; Political Science / Political Parties; Soviet union
First sentence: Reflection on the Soviet Communist Party in the 1930s has often produced the image of a closed, monolithic, disciplined organization that functioned without dissent and with a high level of centralized control.