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| Author | : Matthew E. Lenoe |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 833 |
| Release | : 2010-05-25 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0300142420 |
Drawing on hundreds of newly available, top-secret KGB and party Central Committee documents, historian Matthew E. Lenoe reexamines the 1934 assassination of Leningrad party chief Sergei Kirov. Joseph Stalin used the killing as the pretext to unleash the Great Terror that decimated the Communist elite in 1937–1938; these previously unavailable documents raise new questions about whether Stalin himself ordered the murder, a subject of speculation since 1938.The book includes translations of 125 documents from the various investigations of the Kirov murder, allowing readers to reach their own conclusions about Stalin’s involvement in the assassination.
| Author | : Robert Conquest |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 164 |
| Release | : 1988 |
| Genre | : Soviet Union |
| ISBN | : 9780888642004 |
| Author | : Amy W. Knight |
| Publisher | : Hill & Wang |
| Total Pages | : 331 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780809097036 |
The 1934 murder of the charismatic politician Sergei Kirov sparked Stalin's brutal purges, and speculation about it still fascinates the Russians. Who killed Kirov, and why? In Russia, conspiracy theories about Kirov have abounded, and scholars throughout the world have tackled various pieces of the story -- but definitive evidence has eluded them. Now Amy Knight has combed the recently opened Russian archives to reconstruct this fascinating crime and analyze its effect on the Russian people. The result is at once an intriguing murder mystery and a major piece of scholarship that sheds new light on the terrors of Stalin.
| Author | : Robert Conquest |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 194 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
On December 1, 1934, a lone gunman shot and killed Sergei Kirov, Secretary of the Central and Leningrad Party Organization, member of the Moscow Politburo, and heir apparent to Joseph Stalin. This assassination was arguably one of the most significant crimes of the century. Not only did it seal the fate of thousands of people only superficially connected to the killer, it eliminated the second most powerful man in Russia, giving Stalin free rein to dominate Soviet policy. Stalin and the Kirov Murder, written by the much acclaimed author of Harvest of Sorrow, is the first authoritative examination of the case. Based on all the available evidence, including official documents as well as the reports of numerous Russian defectors, Conquest's book provides a fascinating and, at times, chilling account of the murder and its aftermath. He convincingly demonstrates what has long been rumored--that Stalin sanctioned Kirov's assassination.
| Author | : Leon Trotsky |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 34 |
| Release | : 2011-05-01 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781258009038 |
| Author | : Grover Furr |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : Revolutionaries |
| ISBN | : 9789350023037 |
"On December 1, 1934 Leningrad Party leader Sergei M. Kirov was murdered. Investigation of this crime soon led to the three public Moscow "Show" Trials, to the "Tukhachevsky Affair" trial of eight top Army commanders; and then to the "Ezhovshchina" or "Great Terror". Was Leonid Nikolaev, Kirov's killer, a lone gunman acting from personal motives whose crime Stalin then "used" to frame and execute real or imagined enemies? Or was Nikolaev's arrest the key event that led to the uncovering "the great conspiracy against Soviet Russia"? Grover Furr has studied all the available evidence, most of it from formerly-secret Soviet archives. He offers complete and original translations of key historical documents and detailed analysis of their significance in an important synthesis that effectively reconsiders one of the pivotal events of Soviet history. Furr also examines in detail the three latest studies of the Kirov murder - by Alla Kirilina, Åsmund Egge, and Matthew Lenoe. His discovery: all the "authoritative" studies of the Kirov murder are hopelessly wrong. Written with the same meticulous attention to detail as his 2011 work "Khrushchev Lied, " Furr's book "The Murder of Sergei Kirov: History, Scholarship and the Anti-Stalin Paradigm" is a bold rejoinder to decades of omission, distortion and misinformation by Soviet, Russian, and Western historians."--Back cover.
| Author | : Adam B. Ulam |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P |
| Total Pages | : 426 |
| Release | : 1988 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Matthew Edward Lenoe |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 833 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780300112368 |
Drawing on hundreds of newly available, top-secret KGB and party Central Committee documents, historian Matthew E. Lenoe reexamines the 1934 assassination of Leningrad party chief Sergei Kirov. Joseph Stalin used the killing as the pretext to unleash the Great Terror that decimated the Communist elite in 1937–1938; these previously unavailable documents raise new questions about whether Stalin himself ordered the murder, a subject of speculation since 1938. The book includes translations of 125 documents from the various investigations of the Kirov murder, allowing readers to reach their own conclusions about Stalin’s involvement in the assassination.
| Author | : John Arch Getty |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 1987-01-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780521335706 |
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 | : Robert W. Thurston |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 338 |
| Release | : 1998-11-10 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780300074420 |
Examining Stalin's reign of terror, this text argues that the Soviet people were not simply victims but also actors in the violence, criticisms and local decisions of the 1930s. It suggests that more believed in Stalin's quest to eliminate internal enemies than were frightened by it.
