1937: Stalin's Year of TerrorMehring Books, 1998 - 550 pages 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. |
Table des matières
Why Did Stalin Need Sabotage? | 263 |
The NKVD Stands Accused | 276 |
The FebruaryMarch Plenum on Party Work | 281 |
Stalin Issues Directives | 286 |
The Election Campaign in the Party | 298 |
The Dewey Commission | 305 |
Trotsky in the Curved Mirror of AntiCommunism | 310 |
Trotsky on Bolshevism and Stalinism | 312 |
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From Charges of Terror to New Amalgams | 83 |
The Beginning of the Yezhov Period | 87 |
The Kemerovo Trial | 96 |
The December Plenum of the Central Committee | 98 |
The Trial of the AntiSoviet Trotskyist Center | 113 |
Trotsky Returns to Battle | 130 |
Trotsky on the Goals of the Moscow Trials | 139 |
A Tyrants Revenge | 147 |
The AntiSemitic Subtext of the Moscow Trials | 154 |
Bukharin and Rykov in the Clutches of a Party Investigation | 179 |
The Death of Ordzhonikidze | 185 |
Two Letters from Bukharin | 199 |
Prelude to the FebruaryMarch Plenum | 203 |
Bukharin and Rykov Stand Accused | 210 |
Bukharin and Rykov Defend Themselves | 223 |
The Plenum Delivers its Verdict | 227 |
The Fate of the Letter of an Old Bolshevik | 231 |
Questions of Party Democracy | 239 |
The FebruaryMarch Plenum on Sabotage | 247 |
The Hunting Down of Trotskyists Abroad | 323 |
The Breakthrough and Death of Ignace Reiss | 327 |
Stay Out of Range of the Artillery Fire | 335 |
Trotsky on the Spanish Revolution | 349 |
The Barcelona Uprising | 357 |
Trotskyists in the Camps | 374 |
The Bureaucracy Is Terrorized | 393 |
Reasons for Reprisals against the Generals | 400 |
Prelude to the Purge of the Army | 411 |
The StalinHitler Provocation | 416 |
Preparing the Trial of the Generals | 425 |
The Trial of the Generals | 441 |
Looking Ahead Fifteen Years | 448 |
Was There a Military Conspiracy? | 458 |
The Ballad of General Orlov | 465 |
The Secret of the Tukhachevsky Affair | 470 |
The June Plenum of the Central Committee | 483 |
Notes | 501 |
Name Index | 519 |
Subject Index | 537 |
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