TY  - GEN
T1  - The Kirov murder and Soviet history
T2  - Annals of Communism.
A1  - Lenoe, Matthew E. (Matthew Edward)
LA  - English
LA  - Russian
PP  - New Haven Conn.
PB  - Yale University Press
YR  - 2010
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn884499480
AB  - 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. The book includes translations of 125 documents from the various investigations of the Kirov murder, allowing readers to reach their own conclusions about Stalin's involvement in the assassination.
OP  - 833
CN  - DK268.K5 L46 2010eb
SN  - 9780300142426
SN  - 0300142420
SN  - 9780300112368
SN  - 030011236X
KW  - Kirov, Sergeĭ Mironovich, : 1886-1934 : Assassination.
KW  - Stalin, Joseph, : 1878-1953.
KW  - Kommunisticheskai͡a partii͡a Sovetskogo Soi͡uza : Purges.
KW  - Kirov, Sergeĭ Mironovich, : 1886-1934
KW  - Stalin, Joseph, : 1878-1953
KW  - Kommunisticheskai͡a partii͡a Sovetskogo Soi͡uza
KW  - Kommunističeskaja partija Sovetskogo Sojuza : utrensningar.
KW  - Political purges : Soviet Union : History.
KW  - Political atrocities : Soviet Union : History.
KW  - Soviet Union : History : 1925-1953.
KW  - Purges politiques : URSS : Histoire.
KW  - Atrocités politiques : URSS : Histoire.
KW  - URSS : Histoire : 1925-1953.
KW  - Assassination
KW  - Political atrocities
KW  - Political purges
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Sovjetunionen : historia : 1900-talet.
KW  - 1925-1953
KW  - History
ER  -