- History, Kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ Sovetskogo Soi︠u︡za, Political purges, Politics and government
"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.
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- Author
- J. Arch Getty
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 478
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780300104073
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