The Kirov murder and Soviet history /
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 eli...
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| Hōputu: | Licensed eBooks |
| Reo: | Ingarihi Ruhiana |
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New Haven [Conn.] :
Yale University Press
©2010.
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| Rangatū: | Annals of Communism.
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| Urunga tuihono: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5vksg7 |
Rārangi ihirangi:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Translation, Transliteration, and Dates
- Note on Soviet Government and Territorial Structures
- Note on the Documents and Citations
- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
- List of Archives Cited
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. From Kostrikov to Kirov, 1886-1925
- Chapter 2. Conquering Leningrad, 1925-1929
- Chapter 3. Kirov in Leningrad, 1930-1934
- Chapter 4. The Scene of the Crime
- Chapter 5. Leonid Nikolaev
- Chapter 6. Nikolaev Agonistes
- Chapter 7. Stalin Responds
- Chapter 8. Fingering the Zinovievites
- Chapter 9. The Trials of the Moscow and Leningrad "Centers"
- Chapter 10. Investigating the Leningrad NKVD
- Chapter 11. The Kirov Murder and the Great Terror
- Chapter 12. Rumors, Speculation, and the Martyr Cult
- Chapter 13. The Kirov Murder in the West, 1934-1956
- Chapter 14. The Politics of Rehabilitation and the Kirov Murder, 1953-1957
- Chapter 15. Shatunovskaya's Investigation and After
- Conclusion
- Appendix. Biographical Sketches
- Notes
- Index of Documents
- General Index.