Origins of the Great Purges: The Soviet Communist Party Reconsidered, 1933-1938

This is a study of the structure of the Soviet Communist Party in the 1930s. Based upon...
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Author: John Archibald Getty
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Language: English
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Origins of the Great Purges: The Soviet Communist Party Reconsidered, 1933-1938 by Getty, John Archibald

Origins of the Great Purges: The Soviet Communist Party Reconsidered, 1933-1938

$1,039.22

Origins of the Great Purges: The Soviet Communist Party Reconsidered, 1933-1938

$1,039.22
Author: John Archibald Getty
Format: Paperback
Language: English
This is a study of the structure of the Soviet Communist Party in the 1930s. Based upon archival and published sources, the work describes the events in the Bolshevik Party leading up to the Great Purges of 1937-1938. Professor Getty concludes that the party bureaucracy was chaotic rather than totalitarian, and that local officials had relative autonomy within a considerably fragmented political system. The Moscow leadership, of which Stalin was the most authoritarian actor, reacted to social and political processes as much as instigating them. Because of disputes, confusion, and inefficiency, they often promoted contradictory policies. Avoiding the usual concentration on Stalin's personality, the author puts forward the controversial hypothesis that the Great Purges occurred not as the end product of a careful Stalin plan, but rather as the bloody but ad hoc result of Moscow's incremental attempts to centralise political power.

Author: John Archibald Getty
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 01/30/1987
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 8.62h x 6.24w x 0.73d
ISBN: 9780521335706

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