1937

Stalin's Year of Terror

• Author(s): Vadim Zakharovich Rogovin,
• Publisher: Mehring Books
• Pages: 550
• ISBN_10: 0929087771
  ISBN_13: 9780929087771
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / Political , History / Europe / General , History / Russia / General , History / Russia / Soviet Era , Juvenile Nonfiction / History / Europe , Political Science / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism , Political Science / History & Theory ,

Description:... This is the first major study by a Russian Marxist historian of the most tragic and fateful year in the history of the Soviet Union. With an encyclopedic knowledge of Soviet source material, including archival documents released after the fall of the USSR, Vadim Rogovin presents a detailed and penetrating analysis of the causes, impact and consequences of Stalin's purges. He demonstrates that the principal function of the terror was the physical annihilation of the substantial socialist opposition to Stalin's bureaucratic regime.