The Kirov Affair
Author | : Adam B. Ulam |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Adam B. Ulam |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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 | : Outlet |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1989-09-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780517699461 |
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 | : 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 | : Robert Conquest |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 606 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0195316991 |
"The definitive work on Stalin's purges, the author's The Great Terror was universally acclaimed when it first appeared in 1968. Provides accounts of on everything form the three great 'Moscow Trials' to methods of obtaining confessions, the purge of writers and other members of the intelligentsia, on life in the labor camps, and many other key matters. On the fortieth anniversary of thew first edition, it is remarkable how many of the most disturbing conclusions have born up under the light of fresh evidence." --
Author | : Lev Kopelev |
Publisher | : HarperCollins Publishers |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Amy Knight |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2007-08-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 078673308X |
On September 5, 1945, cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko severed ties with the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa, reporting to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police allegations of extensive Soviet espionage in North America, providing stolen documents detailing Soviet intelligence matters to back his claims. This action sent shockwaves through Washington, London, Moscow, and Ottawa, changing the course of the twentieth century. Using recently declassified FBI and Canadian RCMP files on the Gouzenko case, author and Cold War scholar Amy Knight sheds new light on the FBI's efforts to incriminate Alger Hiss and Harry Dexter White in order to discredit the Truman Administration. FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover seized upon Gouzenko's defection as a means through which to demonize the Soviets, distorting statements made by Gouzenko to stir up "spy fever" in the U.S., setting the McCarthy era into motion. Through the FBI files and interviews with several key players, Knight delves into Gouzenko's reasons for defecting and brilliantly connects these events to the strained relations between the Soviet Union and the West, marking the beginning of the Cold War.
Author | : Sheila Fitzpatrick |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1999-03-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0195050002 |
Focusing on urban areas in the 1930s, this college professor illuminates the ways that Soviet city-dwellers coped with this world, examining such diverse activities as shopping, landing a job, and other acts.
Author | : Vadim Zakharovich Rogovin |
Publisher | : Mehring Books |
Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Opposition (Political science) |
ISBN | : 0929087771 |
The first major study by a Russian Marxist Historian of the Stalinist purges which are often collectively reffered to by the year they reached their greatest intensity: 1937. Rogovin shows that the purges were aimed at the physical annihilation of the growing socialist opposition to Stalin's bureaucratic regime. Focused on Leon Trotsky and his thousands of supporters, the purges were a blow against the October Revolution, its leaders and its heritage.