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The Great Fear - Stalin's Terror of the 1930s (Paperback)
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The Great Fear - Stalin's Terror of the 1930s (Paperback)
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Between the winter of 1936 and the autumn of 1938, approximately
three quarters of a million Soviet citizens were subject to summary
execution. More than a million others were sentenced to lengthy
terms in labour camps. Commonly known as 'Stalin's Great Terror',
it is also among the most misunderstood moments in the history of
the twentieth century. The Terror gutted the ranks of factory
directors and engineers after three years in which all major plan
targets were met. It raged through the armed forces on the eve of
the Nazi invasion. The wholesale slaughter of party and state
officials was in danger of making the Soviet state ungovernable.
The majority of these victims of state repression in this period
were accused of participating in counter-revolutionary
conspiracies. Almost without exception, there was no substance to
the claims and no material evidence to support them. By the time
the terror was brought to a close, most of its victims were
ordinary Soviet citizens for whom 'counter-revolution' was an
unfathomable abstraction. In short, the Terror was wholly
destructive, not merely in terms of the incalculable human cost,
but also in terms of the interests of the Soviet leaders,
principally Joseph Stalin, who directed and managed it. The Great
Fear presents a new and original explanation of Stalin's Terror
based on intelligence materials in Russian archives. It shows how
Soviet leaders developed a grossly exaggerated fear of conspiracy
and foreign invasion and lashed out at enemies largely of their own
making.
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