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Soviet Purges

Books on: (purge OR "show trials") AND (stalin OR soviet)

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Show Trials: Stalinist Purges in Eastern Europe, 1948-1954

Book by George H. Hodos; Praeger Publishers, 1987

Subjects:

Communist Party Purges--History, Political Purges--Europe, Eastern--History, Trials (Political Crimes And Offenses)--Europe, Eastern

Collections: History, Entire Library

...asked for an audience with Stalin, but Stalin declined. Up to then, the Soviet Union had taken little interest in...Djilas in his book Conversations with Stalin , the Soviet dictator was even more cynical...provocative at a time when the Yugoslav-Soviet conflict was beginning to unfold. Stalin at
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Cold Peace: Stalin and the Soviet Ruling Circle, 1945-1953

Book by Yoram Gorlizki, Oleg Khlevniuk; Oxford University Press, 2004

Subjects:

Soviet Union--Politics And Government--1936-1953, Stalin, Joseph--1879-1953, Stalin, Joseph--1879-1953--Friends And Associates

Collections: History, Entire Library

...lend support to the view that Stalin was preparing a show trial...beginning of February 1953, Stalin rejected as too sharp a hard-line letter from loyal Soviet Jews attacking the actions...postwar period. Since the war, Stalin had spurned any show trials, preferring to have even...
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Stalin and the Soviet Union

Book by Stephen J. Lee; Routledge, 1999

Subjects:

Heads Of State--Soviet Union--Biography, Soviet Union--Politics And Government--1917-1936, Soviet Union--Politics And Government--1936-1953, Stalin, Joseph--1879-1953

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Shostakovich, Dmitry 61 show trials 17 , 21 , 24 , (1936) 22...show trial (1937) 17 , 22 Soviet of the Nationalities 18 - 19 Soviet of the Union 18 soviets 7 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 21 Sovnarkom...Stakhanovites 24 , 26 , 56 , 61 Stalin, Josef 65 - 78 , 65 -6...11 - 12 ; speech to the Soviet public (1946) 105 ; see...7, 98 , 110 ; see also purges Thermidor 3
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The Soviet Purge: 1953 Version

Book by Herbert S. Dinerstein; Rand Corporation, 1953

Subjects:

Kommunisticheskaeiia Partieiia Sovetskogo Soeiiuza--Purges

Collections: History, Entire Library

a purge of the security police now...murder of the purger? Under Soviet conditions, a purge has the result of alienating...requires a conspiracy. In a purge situation, where even ones...There is some evidence that Stalin and other high Soviet leaders...
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The Soviet Political Mind: Studies in Stalinism and Post-Stalin Change

Book by Robert C. Tucker; Frederick A. Praeger, 1963

Subjects:

Soviet Union--Foreign Relations--1945-1991, Soviet Union--Politics And Government--1945-1991

Collections: History, Entire Library

...role most had played in the purge of the Red Army High Command...dominant figure of-the post-Stalin Soviet regime. Many foreign students of Soviet affairs then concluded that the Stalin succession crisis had been...and that Khrushchev, like Stalin before him, was now the "unchallenged" leader of Soviet Russia. But this conclusion...

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Journal Articles on: (purge OR "show trials") AND (stalin OR soviet)

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`The Party That Ate Itself': Julian Reed-Purvis Investigates Stalin's Role in the Origins of the Great Purges

Journal article by Julian Reed-Purvis; History Review, 2001

Subjects:

Communist Party (Soviet Union)--Powers and duties, Dictators--Powers and duties, History--Study and teaching, Political persecution--Social aspects, Russia--History, Stalin, Joseph--Powers and duties

Collections: History, Entire Library

...actually conspired against Stalin, but he was not about to...CONCLUSION The origins of the Great Purges clearly lay well before 1938...in 1918 and had appointed Stalin to police any discontent or...Additionally, Lenin had held show trials of his own against the Socialist...against other rivals to run the Soviet Union; but Stalin, as well as his supporters...
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The Stalin Years: A Reader

Journal article by Daniel Beer; Journal of European Studies, Vol. 33, 2003

Subjects:

Stalinism (Book), The Stalin Years: A Reader (Book), The Structure of Soviet History (Book)

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...cheerleaders, many ordinary Soviet citizens thought" as well...Bolshevik. Embracing the entire Soviet period, Ronald Grigor Sunys The Structure of Soviet History fruitfully combines...such as a communication from Stalin to party secretaries on the need to institute show trials in the localities. Clearly...
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Kim Takes Control: The "Great Purge" in North Korea, 1956-1960

Journal article by Andrei N. Lankov; Korean Studies, Vol. 26, 2002

Subjects:

Communism--Models, Coups d'etat--History, Kim Il Sung--Political activity, Korean history, North Korea--Political aspects, Political purges--History, Political violence--History, Social change--Causes of, Stalinism

Collections: History, Entire Library

...and Poland caused the Soviet government to be less...player in the anti-Stalin crusade. As Ho Chin...other reasons why the Soviets did not interfere a...initial thrust of the purges was directed primarily...Yanan faction (the Soviet Koreans were to follow...of the Soviet Great Purge of 1937. In both cases, the purges targeted, above all...the purges was not a Soviet puppet any more. The Soviets lost certain strategic...
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The Butchery of Hitler and Stalin

Journal article by James Kirchick; Policy Review, 2011

Subjects:

Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews

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...the mass shootings and show trials, the wanton disregard for...Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. Of course, I knew something...grown to the rest of the Soviet Union and beyond. Those...genocide on the part of Joseph Stalin (as opposed to, at worst...an identity for the post-Soviet age, this question is a...this was written out. The Soviets cynically argued that defining...
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The Secret File of Joseph Stalin: A Hidden Life

Journal article by Evan Mawdsley; The Historian, Vol. 66, 2004

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Books--Book reviews, The Secret File of Joseph Stalin: A Hidden Life (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

The Secret File of Joseph Stalin: A Hidden Life. by Evan...support. Stalins 1937 army purge was an attempt to break this conspiracy, and the larger purge of the Old Bolsheviks had...link between the file and the purges, was laid out in Life magazine...1930s and 1940s, relating to Stalin and the Okhrana were fabricated by the Soviet dictator to discredit authentic...

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Magazine Articles on: (purge OR "show trials") AND (stalin OR soviet)

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The Terrors: One of the Foremost Scholars of Soviet History Assesses an Ambitious New Biography of Stalin

Magazine article by Robert Conquest; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 294, July 2004

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Stalin: The Court of the Red Tiger (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...of the Foremost Scholars of Soviet History Assesses an Ambitious New Biography of Stalin. by Robert Conquest STALIN...in 1938, during the Great Purge. Most of his direct observations...the Soviet public during the purge. Sebag Montefiore has no...over the whole of his career Stalin signed 44,000 individual death sentences. The "anti-Soviet elements" targeted included...
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The Mystery of Stalin: Paul Wingrove Examines the Starkly Different Interpretations That Seek to Explain the Career of Joseph Stalin, Who Died Fifty Years Ago This Month

Magazine article by Paul Wingrove; History Today, Vol. 53, March 2003

Subjects:

Soviet Union--History, Stalin, Joseph--Analysis

Collections: History, Entire Library

...south Korea; we know that Stalin treated his supposed ally...December 1949; and we know that Stalin almost certainly planned...Volkogonov. We also know of Soviet guilt for the Katyn massacres...bloody infighting and the purges of the Bolshevik party leadership...w e know ... that Stalin personally edited the lists...statements for the 1936 and 1937 show trials. We also have conclusive...Stalin, especially during the purge of many of his former colleagues...
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A Monastic Revival: Stella Rock Sees a Renaissance of Religious Traditions at What Was One of Russia's Most Vibrant Monasteries before the Soviet Purge

Magazine article by Stella Rock; History Today, Vol. 59, February 2009

Subjects:

Monasteries--History, Religious institutions--Buildings and facilities, Religious organizations--Buildings and facilities, Russia--Religious aspects, Russian Orthodox Eastern Church--Buildings and facilities

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Most Vibrant Monasteries before the Soviet Purge. by Stella Rock The Russian Orthodox...played a powerful role in post-Soviet societys efforts to reassess and...commemorated Christians persecuted by the Soviet regime. The revival of its monasteries...
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The 60th Anniversary of Orwell's 1984: Though Literary Experts Often Conclude That George Orwell's 1984 Is a Condemnation of the Soviet Union's Josef Stalin, It Is Really about Out-of-Control Socialism

Magazine article by David A. Goodman; The New American, Vol. 25, December 7, 2009

Subjects:

Nineteen Eighty-Four (Novel)--Appreciation, Orwell, George--Works, Socialism--Analysis

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...1984 that combines the pro-Soviet vision of the Webbs with...like an invention by the Soviets under Stalin to scare the people. In...falls far short of the Josef Stalin monstrosity. We still do...short of adoption today. Purges and show trials remain in the future, if...
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Westerners Took a While to Grasp Soviet Threat

Magazine article by Stephen Goode; Insight on the News, Vol. 12, June 10, 1996

Subjects:

Cold War--History, Communism--History, Soviet Union--Relations with the United States, Stalin, Joseph--Foreign relations, United States--Relations with Soviet Union

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...responsibility of Stalin for the Soviet and U.S. rivalry that followed...were eager to destroy the Soviet Union and used any excuse...percent" the fault of the Soviets, says foreign-policy analyst...By that time, too, the Soviet Union had, with the help...that he considered inviting Stalin to the United States to rebut...handpicked, as in the infamous purge trials of the 1930s, others...

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Newspaper Articles on: (purge OR "show trials") AND (stalin OR soviet)

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Iran's Show Trials

Newspaper article by Arnold Beichman; The Washington Times, June 8, 2000

Subjects:

Iran, Stalin, Joseph

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Irans show trials by Arnold Beichman Who...that the ghost of Josef Stalin and his infamous Moscow...know the history of Soviet totalitarianism, the Moscow trials organized by Stalin in the 1930s were the...been added to these show trials - televised confessions...
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PBS Shows the Real Stalin

Newspaper article by Richard Grenier; The Washington Times, July 4, 1997

Subjects:

Public Broadcasting Service, Stalin, Joseph

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

PBS shows the real Stalin by Richard Grenier When...was unquestionably the Soviet Union, which many signs...well never see the Soviet equivalent of Germanys...revelation yet of how Stalin, while Soviet citizens were fighting...confessions at brutal "show trials," and shot. The greatest...
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How Stalin, the 'Breaker of Nations,' Hated, Murdered Jews

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, August 17, 2003

Subjects:

Lustiger, Jean-Marie, Cardinal, Stalin, Joseph

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Forgotten was the Nazi-Soviet alliance from August 1939 to...1941, when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union. During that 20-month...writes Mr. Lustiger, the Soviet media substituted the phrase...invasion, July 2, 1941, before Stalin permitted public criticism...equally forgotten was Stalins purge of the Red Army during which...
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Stalin the Not-So-Bad? No Way to Play Down the Great Terror

Newspaper article by Arnold Beichman; The Washington Times, September 21, 1999

Subjects:

Stalin, Joseph

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Stalin the not-so-bad...co-author, using Soviet archival material...Getty has dressed Stalin up for some time, having...under Stalins rule "the Soviet government . . . was...Politburo material setting purge victim quotas for cities...reprinted from declassified Soviet archives. They are...considering that while Stalin was sentencing millions...
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Stalin Murdered 20 Million People - Including My Grandfather. It's Terrifying That Putin Is Turning Him into a Hero; as newRussian Schoolbooks Whitewash Stalin's Atrocities,one Writer's Very Personal Response

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), December 3, 2009

Subjects:

Political parties, Putin, Vladimir, Stalin, Joseph

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Stalin Murdered 20 Million People...lived in such fear of the Soviet dictator that they dared not...their deaths in political purges and who callously condemned...a victim of Stalins great Purge of the Party. Bibikov had...prosecuting at the same time as the Purge of the Party -- his war against...was filled with reproduction Soviet posters from the Forties featuring red flags and a smiling Stalin. And last month, a gleaming...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: (purge OR "show trials") AND (stalin OR soviet)

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Stalin, Joseph Vissarionovich

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...political purges of the 1930s. Stalin made his dictatorship absolute...opposition within the party. The purge was touched off by the murder...the secret police. As the purges drew to a close (1939...disloyal in case of war. The Soviet system of forced labor camps...period. In internal policy, Stalin promulgated a new constitution in 1936 (see Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ). Although...
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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...there began a series of purges that culminated in the great purge from 1936 to 1938. The armed...hard labor. Much of the purge was carried out in secret...cases were tried in public "show trials." Among the many thousand victims of the purges were such prominent CPSU...and monolithic unity under Stalin was achieved by 1939. Pre World War II Foreign Relations Soviet foreign policy, long hampered...
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Communist Party , in Russia and the Soviet Union

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...PARTY , in Russia and the Soviet Union in Russia and the Soviet...strengthened at all levels. Under Stalin After the death of Lenin...rural areas. A series of purges in the 1930s decimated the...convicted in spectacular show trials, and executed or exiled. As the purges drew to a close by 1938...the Communist party of the Soviet Union. Post-Stalin Years At the 20th party congress...
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Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeyevich

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...vich khrooschof , 1894 1971, Soviet Communist leader, premier...carried out Stalins ruthless purge of its ranks. As a full member...his Moscow post in 1949. Soviet Leader After the death of Stalin on Mar. 5, 1953, a "collective...the opposite of that of Stalin, was one of "peaceful coexistence...fall of 1960 he headed the Soviet delegation to the UN General...
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Kamenev, Lev Borisovich

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...LEV BORISOVICH lyef b re s vich ka minyif, 1883 1936, Soviet Communist leader. His original name was Rosenfeld. He joined...the Communist party. On Lenins death (1924), Kamenev, Stalin , and Zinoviev formed a triumvirate of successors and excluded...and 14 others were tried for treason in the first big public purge trial. They confessed and were executed. Both he and Zinoviev...

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