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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

...asserts that the weakness of the Polish communist party enabled Bierut to evade a Gomulka trial by his pleading to Stalin that a virulent purge would further undermine the communists position and harm the unfinished process of consolidation. 33 This argument...
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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

...main purpose of the present purge is to maintain Stalins hold...is. It is also assumed that Stalin has approved, if he has not initiated, the present purge in Russia. It bears all the...have been decimated by earlier purges and by time. It is not the...party who once overshadowed Stalin. They are long since dead...
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Politics & Purges in China: Rectification and the Decline of Party Norms, 1950-1965

Book by Frederick C. Teiwes; M. E. Sharpe, 1979

Subjects:

China--Politics and government--1949-1976, Chung-kuo kung ch'an tang--Purges

Collections: History, Entire Library

...true, implied close ties with Stalin, whether they were unique...Kao-Soviet links led to his purge. The absence of more detailed information linking Kao and Stalin is particularly striking. There...in his candid criticisms of Stalin to denounce Kao explicitly for...
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Stalin in Power: The Revolution from Above, 1928-1941

Book by Robert C. Tucker; W.W. Norton, 1992

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

...campaign by party officialdom to deflect Stalin from the purge? 98 By no means. It was a maneuver by Stalin to deflect responsibility for the Terror...them. 99 By having the decree put out, Stalin was not only diverting responsibility from...
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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

...figure who was being groomed by Stalin to lead a purge. Although he may have overstated...that Aristov had been selected by Stalin to take over as the new head of...preparing materials directly for Stalin; for decoding correspondence...

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Journal Articles on: stalin purge

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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

...Control: The "Great Purge" in North Korea, 1956...during large-scale purges, reminiscent of Stalins "Great Purge" of 1937. This article...traces the history of this purge as well as the social...more Stalinist than Stalin himself" while using...article deals with the purges of the late 1950s, which...
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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

...their struggle against Stalin in the 1920s (they...the party membership purge in 1935, V. Aseev...precious as air. The purges allowed Stalin to discipline local...Kirov in Leningrad; the purge of Party members intensifies...replaces Yezhov and the purges ease. Further Reading...1997) Robert Tucker, Stalin in Power: The Revolution...
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Master of the House: Stalin and His Inner Circle

Journal article by Heather D. Dehaan; The Historian, Vol. 73, 2011

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Books--Book reviews, Master of the House: Stalin and His Inner Circle (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...validates Conquests view of Stalin as a puppet master and...so, after absolving Stalin of responsibility for...proceeds to attribute the purges to Stalins ambition...Gettys claim that Stalins purge policies were at least...petitioned for higher purge quotas. Although revisionists...suggested that local purges escalated in unforeseen...the possibility that Stalin may have ended the terror...
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The Roles of Lenin and Stalin in the Russian Revolution

Journal article by Michael Lynch; History Review, 2000

Subjects:

Communism--Social aspects, Lenin, Vladimir I.--Evaluation, Political parties--Evaluation, Revolutions--Social aspects, Stalin, Joseph--Evaluation

Collections: History, Entire Library

...but is very critical of Stalin 1924-29: period of the power struggle - Stalin defeats both the Left...1934: beginning of the Purges against dissidents 1936-39: the Great Purge, a series of show trials...continuation of the purges until Stalins death Key...the `Gulag) How did Stalin enforce his authority...
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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

...support. Stalins 1937 army purge was an attempt to break this conspiracy, and the larger purge of the Old Bolsheviks had the...Army trial, in May 1937, did Stalin finally recover the file...link between the file and the purges, was laid out in Life magazine...1930s and 1940s, relating to Stalin and the Okhrana were fabricated...

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Magazine Articles on: stalin purge

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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

...the hands of Joseph Stalin, especially during the purge of many of his former...thereby colluding with Stalin. As these other factors...Origins of the Great Purges (based mainly on the...is no doubt that he Stalin had chief responsibility...
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Churchill, Stalin, and the Greek Revolution

Magazine article by John Newsinger; Monthly Review, Vol. 50, April 1999

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Churchill, Winston--Powers and duties, Greece--History, Greek history, Liberalism--Analysis, Revolutions--History, Stalin, Joseph--Powers and duties

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...This provided an excuse for a purge of unreliable left and liberal...of Russian foreign policy. Stalin was interested in doing a deal...damaging. Soon afterwards, Stalin got his deal. On October 9...agreement, "the Churchill-Stalin Pact," whereby the fate of...
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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

...the Soviet public during the purge. Sebag Montefiore has no truck...1941, surprised and shook Stalin. After recovering from the...documented, in papers signed by Stalin and specifying quotas for death...over the whole of his career Stalin signed 44,000 individual...spoke out in defense of the purges. In the United States a number...
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FDR's Patriot Purge

Magazine article by William Norman Grigg; The New American, Vol. 19, June 16, 2003

Subjects:

Dies, Martin--Political activity, Patriotism--History, Patriotism--Political aspects, Roosevelt, Franklin D.--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Roosevelt, Franklin D.--Political activity, Subversive activities--Investigations, United States history--Analysis

Collections: History, Entire Library

FDRs Patriot Purge. by William Norman Grigg...Poland. "The dictators, Stalin and Hitler, are alike in...entered into an alliance with Stalin, the Nazi dictator had appropriated...Prior to the Hitler-Stalin pact, the Kremlin-directed...
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A Million Here, a Million There

Magazine article by Alexander Cockburn; The Nation, Vol. 248, March 6, 1989

Subjects:

Medvedev, Roy--Research, Soviet Union--History, Soviet history, Stalin, Joseph--Political activity

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Its clear enough that Stalin was here indicating...With respect to the purges of 1937 and 1938, Hough...number of deaths in the purge would certainly be placed...excess deaths under Stalin before 1939, this estimate...Stalin, dismiss the purges as got up by Western...ground that the Great Purge was so horrible that...evidence of being soft on Stalin. One can find an analogy...

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Newspaper Articles on: stalin purge

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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

...to their deaths in political purges and who callously condemned...campaign to cleanse the image of Stalin and revive the notion of a...of textbooks, which present Stalin as a national hero, are being...positive even about the horrors of Stalin. It is wrong to write a textbook...a victim of Stalins great Purge of the Party. Bibikov had...
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Stalin Murdered 20 Million People - Including My Grandfather. It's Terrifying That Putin Is Turning Him into a Hero; as New Russian 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

...to their deaths in political purges and who callously condemned...campaign to cleanse the image of Stalin and revive the notion of a...of textbooks, which present Stalin as a national hero, are being...positive even about the horrors of Stalin. It is wrong to write a textbook...a victim of Stalins great Purge of the Party. Bibikov had...
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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

...invasion, July 2, 1941, before Stalin permitted public criticism of...equally forgotten was Stalins purge of the Red Army during which...cosmopolitans," a euphemism Stalin adopted, says Mr. Lustiger...And yet at the same time Stalin was supporting Israel in the...
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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

...Getty and Mr. Naumov write that Stalin "was never omnipotent," all...historians." Mr. Getty has dressed Stalin up for some time, having previously...especially Politburo material setting purge victim quotas for cities, towns...especially considering that while Stalin was sentencing millions of Russian...
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Call for Unity as Russia Remembers the Victims of Stalinist Purges; INTERNATIONAL

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), October 31, 2007

Subjects:

Putin, Vladimir

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

...Remembers the Victims of Stalinist Purges; INTERNATIONAL. Vladimir Putin...under Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, and called for the country...of people were executed under Stalin and many more perished from...killed in purges under Joseph Stalin Picture, EDUARD KORNIYENKO...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: stalin purge

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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

...of internationalism. Stalin maintained that his...height in the political purges of the 1930s. Stalin made his dictatorship...within the party. The purge was touched off by the...were executed. The purge extended even to the...secret police. As the purges drew to a close (1939...In internal policy, Stalin promulgated a new constitution...
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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

...discipline. In 1936 the Stalin constitution was issued...run the country, and Stalin, as the Wisest of the...there began a series of purges that culminated in the great purge from 1936 to 1938...labor. Much of the purge was carried out in secret...thousand victims of the purges were such prominent...monolithic unity under Stalin was achieved by 1939...
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Kirov, Sergei Mironovich

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) when he was assassinated, probably at Stalins order. However, Stalin used Kirovs murder to institute the party purge and the treason trials of the late 1930s. Among those tried and executed for Kirovs murder were...
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Krylenko, Nikolai Vasilyevich

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...in 1918 and later became public prosecutor and commissar of justice. He was tried (1938) in the party purge trials instituted by Stalin and was executed. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used...
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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

...carried out Stalins ruthless purge of its ranks. As a full member...Soviet Leader After the death of Stalin on Mar. 5, 1953, a "collective...policies, and personality of Stalin. The program of destalinization...great change from the days of Stalin. Destalinization had, however...

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