Stalin's Terror
Subtitle: High Politics and Mass Repression in the Soviet Union
Contributors: Barry McLoughlin (Editor); Kevin McDermott (Editor)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: September 4, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781403939036
Subjects: Central government; European history: from c 1900 -; Marxism & Communism; Political oppression & persecution; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; History: World; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; History; History - General History; Textbooks; Purges; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); Kommunisticheskaia partiia; History / Russia (pre- & post-Soviet Union); Eastern Europe - General; Stalin, Joseph,; 1879-1953; Kommunisticheskaëiìa partiëiìa Sovetskogo Soëiìuza; Political purges; Soviet Union
First sentence: At the February-March 1937 Plenum of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) [VKP(b)], Ezhov declared that Stalin held the state security organs to be "the armed vanguard of our Party".