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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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English Russian |
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New Haven [Conn.] :
Yale University Press
©2010.
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| Series: | Annals of Communism.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5vksg7 |