Stalin's great purge
By: Noah Berlatsky, book editor
Series: Perspectives on modern world history
Publisher: Greenhaven Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780737763713
Subjects: Politics and government; Sources; Kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ Sovetskogo Soi︠u︡za; Social conditions; Purges; History; Political purges
Description: This volume examines the background, events, and outcomes of Stalin's Great Purge.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Historical Background on Stalin's Great Purge; title: Overview of the Great Purge / Hiroaki Kuromiya; title: Stalin's Five-Year Plan Has Created Hardship / Gareth Jones; title: Interrogations During the Purges Involved Torture / Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn; title: Doctors Are Put on Trial for an Alleged Plot / Pravda; title: Stalin's Successor Denounces Stalin and the Purges / Nikita Khruschev; title: Controversies Surrounding Stalin's Great Purge; title: Stalin's Great Purge Was a Continuation of Leninism / Richard Pipes; title: Stalin's Great Purge Was Not a Continuation of Leninism / Isaac Deutscher; title: The Purge Was a Rational Response to Corruption in the Communist Party / Mario Sousa; title: The Purge Was a Means for Stalin to Ruthlessly Solidify Power / Rob Sewell; title: The Purge Was an Irrational Result of Stalin's Paranoia / Robert S. Robins, Jerrold M. Post; title: The Death Tolls of Stalin's Reign Are Underestimated / R.J. Rummel; title: The Death Tolls of Stalin's Reign Have Been Overestimated / Timothy Snyder; title: Stalin's Atrocities Were As Great As Hitler's / Ron Rosenbaum; title: Stalin Was Not As Evil As Hitler / Avishai Margalit; title: Stalin Remains Popular in Russia Today / Adrian Bloomfield; title: Stalin Is Not Popular in Russia Today / Thomas Sherlock; title: Personal Narratives; title: A Ukranian Recalls Childhood During the Famine / Pavlo Makohon; title: A Russian Remembers Childhood During Stalin's Terror / Nina Markovna; title: Nikita Khruschev Decries Stalin and the Purges / Nikita Khruschev; title: A Hungarian Describes His Own Show Trial / George Hodos; title: A Young Russian Woman Remembers the Gulag / Tamara Petkevich; title: Chronology.