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New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, Date: 1999. xxvii, 635 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Annals of Communism Series. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Lower right corners lightly bumped. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. "The vast and complex tragedy of Stalin's purges, culminating in the Great Terror, made victims of millions of Russians between 1932 and 1939. This gripping book assembles and translates into English for the first time an astonishing array of formerly top secret Soviet documents from that period. Exposing to daylight the hidden inner workings of the Communist Party and the dark inhumanity of the purge process, these documents immeasurably deepen our understanding of an agonizing episode of Soviet history. From dossiers on the liquidated Soviet elite to police reports of peasant unrest to private letters from victims and purgers to secret transcripts of Central Committee meetings, the nearly two hundred documents presented here confirm Stalin's role as executor of the terror. Yet the top party elite, or nomenklatura, were also key to the unfolding of a terror that proceeded with fits and starts, moves and countermoves, and steps toward and away from the abyss. From 1932 to early 1937 Stalin and the nomenklatura agreed on the need to destroy all dissidents, to stage show trials, to carry out mass arrests, purges, and shootings, and to prevent any resistance to these ...

Yale University Press, Date: 1999-08-11. Hardcover. Good. 1999. Yale University Press ISBN 0300077726 9780300077728 [US]

ISBN10: 0300077726, ISBN13: 9780300077728, [publisher: Amberley, Gloucestershire] Hardcover Hardcover. 655pp+ index. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket.
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Gloucestershire: Amberley, Date: 2009. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 655pp+ index. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket. 2009. Amberley ISBN 0300077726 US

Gloucestershire: Amberley, Date: 2009. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 655pp+ index. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket. 2009. Amberley ISBN 0300077726 9780300077728 [US]

Yale University Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Date: 1999. Hardcover. 0300077726 . Annals Of Communism Series; 6.75 X 1.75 X 9.5 inches; 672 pages . 1999. Yale University Press ISBN 0300077726 9780300077728 [US]

Yale University Press, Date: 1999-08-11. 1. Hardcover. Used:Good. 1999. Yale University Press ISBN 0300077726 9780300077728 [US]

Yale University Press. hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Yale University Press ISBN 0300077726 9780300077728 [US]