Moscow, 1937 Schlogel Karl
Moscow, 1937 Schlogel Karl Moscow, 1937: the soviet metropolis at the zenith of Stalin's dictatorship. In this compelling book, the renowned historian Karl Schl gel reconstructs with meticulous care…
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Moscow, 1937 Schlogel Karl
Moscow, 1937: the soviet metropolis at the zenith of Stalin's dictatorship. In this compelling book, the renowned historian Karl Schl gel reconstructs with meticulous care the process through which, month by month, the terrorism of a state-of-emergency regime spiraled into the 'Great Terror' during which 1 1/2 million human beings lost their lives within a single year. A society utterly wrecked by a hurricane of violence.
He shows how, in the shadow of the reign of terror, the regime around Stalin also aimed to construct a new society. He revisits the sites of show trials and executions and, by also consulting numerous sources from the time, he provides a masterful panorama of these key events in Russian history. Based on countless documents, Schl gel's historical masterpiece vividly presents an age in which the boundaries separating the dream and the terror dissolve, and enables us