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Kirov Murder and Soviet History

Kirov Murder and Soviet History

Hardcover

Series: Annals of Communism

Eastern European HistoryGeneral World HistoryRussian History

ISBN10: 030011236X
ISBN13: 9780300112368
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Published: May 25 2010
Pages: 872
Weight: 2.95
Height: 2.30 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.40
Language: English

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.

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