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Origins of the Great Purges: The Soviet Communist Party Reconsidered, 1933 1938

Origins of the Great Purges: The Soviet Communist Party Reconsidered, 1933 1938

Getty, John Archibald
Getty, J. Arch

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, Book 43

General European HistoryGeneral Political ScienceRussian History

ISBN10: 0521335701
ISBN13: 9780521335706
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jan 30 1987
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.24 Depth: 8.62
Language: English
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.

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