TY  - BOOK
AU  - Harris,James R.
TI  - The great fear: Stalin's terror of the 1930s 
SN  - 9780191778971 (ebook) :
AV  - DK267 
U1  - 947.0842 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Stalin, Joseph,
KW  - Political persecution
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - State-sponsored terrorism
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - Between the winter of 1936 and the autumn of 1938, approximately three quarters of a million Soviet citizens were subject to summary execution. More than a million others were sentenced to lengthy terms in labour camps. Commonly known as 'Stalin's Great Terror', it is also among the most misunderstood moments in the history of the 20th century. The Terror gutted the ranks of factory directors and engineers after three years in which all major plan targets were met. It raged through the armed forces on the eve of the Nazi invasion. The wholesale slaughter of party and state officials was in danger of making the Soviet state ungovernable. The majority of these victims of state repression in this period were accused of participating in counter-revolutionary conspiracies. Almost without exception, there was no substance to the claims and no material evidence to support them
UR  - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199695768.001.0001
ER  -