The road to terror
Subtitle: Stalin and the self-destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939
By: J. Arch Getty and Oleg V. Naumov ; translations by Benjamin Sher.
Contributors: Naumov, Oleg V.
Series: Annals of communism
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New Haven, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 635
Subjects: Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953 -- Sources; Kommunisticheskai͡a︡ partii͡a︡ Sovetskogo Soi͡u︡za -- Purges -- Sources; Political purges -- Soviet Union -- History -- Sources; Terrorism -- Soviet Union -- Sources; Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936 -- Sources; Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1936-1953 -- Sources
Description: "The vast and complex tragedy of Stalin's purges, culminating in the Great Terror, made victims of millions of Russians between 1932 and 1939. This book assembles and translates into English for the first time an astonishing array of formerly top secret Soviet documents from that period.

Exposing to daylight the hidden inner workings of the Communist Party and the dark inhumanity of the purge process, these documents immeasurably deepen our understanding of an agonizing episode of Soviet history."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.