Title: The road to terror
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.
Subjects: History, Kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ Sovetskogo Soi︠u︡za, Political purges, Politics and government, Purges, Sources, Soviet Union, Terrorism, Kommunisticheskai͡a partii͡a Sovetskogo Soi͡uza, Stalin, joseph, 1879-1953, Histoire, Kommunističeskaja partija Sovetskogo Sojuza, Bolsjewisme, Politique et gouvernement, Purges politiques, Terrorisme
Places: Soviet Union
People: Joseph Stalin (1879-1953)
Time periods: 1917-1936, 1936-1953