Great Fear Harris James Senior Lecturer in Modern European History University of Leeds Paperback
Great Fear Harris James Senior Lecturer in Modern European History University of Leeds Paperback Between the winter of 1936 and the autumn of 1938, approximately three quarters of a million Soviet…
Specifikacia Great Fear Harris James Senior Lecturer in Modern European History University of Leeds Paperback
Great Fear Harris James Senior Lecturer in Modern European History University of Leeds Paperback
Between the winter of 1936 and the autumn of 1938, approximately three quarters of a million Soviet citizens were subject to summary execution. Commonly known as 'Stalin's Great Terror', it is also among the most misunderstood moments in the history of the twentieth century. More than a million others were sentenced to lengthy terms in labour camps.
It raged through the armed forces on the eve of the Nazi invasion. The Terror gutted the ranks of factory directors and engineers after three years in which all major plan targets were met. 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