Bibliograph

Stalin's great purge, Noah Berlatsky, editor

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Stalin's great purge, Noah Berlatsky, editor

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-181) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Stalin's great purge

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

783171317

Responsibility statement

Noah Berlatsky, editor

Series statement

Perspectives on modern world history

Table Of Contents

Pt. 1. Historical background on Stalin's Great Purge. Overview of the Great Purge / Hiroaki Kuromiya -- Stalin's Five-Year Plan created hardship / Gareth Jones -- Interrogations during the purges involved torture / Bill James -- Doctors are put on trial for an alleged plot / Pravda -- Stalin's successor denounces Stalin and the purges / Nikita Khrushchev -- pt. 2. Controversies surrounding Stalin's Great Purge. The purge was a rational response to corruption in the Communist Party / Mário Sousa -- The purge was a means for Stalin to ruthlessly solidify power / Rob Sewell -- The purge was an irrational result of Stalin's paranoia / Robert S. Robins and Jerrold M. Post -- The death tolls of Stalin's reign are underestimated / R.J. Rummel -- The death tolls of Stalin's reign have been overestimated / Timothy Snyder -- Stalin's atrocities were as great as Hitler's / Ron Rosenbaum -- Stalin was not as evil as Hitler / Avishai Margalit -- Stalin remains popular in Russia today / Adrian Blomfield -- Stalin is not popular in Russia today / Thomas Sherlock -- pt. 3. Personal narratives. Recalling Stalin's Soviet Russia / Owen Matthews -- A Russian remembers childhood during Stalin's Terror / Nina Markovna -- Nikita Khrushchev decries Stalin and the Purges / Nikita Khrushchev -- The Slánský trial / George H. Hodos -- A young Russian woman remembers the Gulag / Tamara Petkevich

Target audience

adolescent

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