Great Fear
Subtitle: Stalin's Terror of The 1930s
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780199695768
Subjects: Stalin, joseph, 1879-1953; Political persecution; State-sponsored terrorism; Soviet union, social conditions
Description: "Presents a new and original explanation of the Stalin's Terror based on intelligence materials in Russian archives. It shows how Soviet leaders developed a grossly exaggerated fear of conspiracy and foreign invasion and lashed out at enemies largely of their own making"--Back of jacket.