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ORIGINS OF THE GREAT PURGES

SOVIET AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES

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JULIAN COOPER, MICHAEL KASER, ALISTAIR MCAULEY,

MARTIN MCCAULEY, FRED SINGLETON, RON HILL, PAUL LEWIS

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to the Soviet Union and the countries of Eastern Europe. The Monograph

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tory of the USSR and Eastern Europe.

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ORIGINS OF

THE GREAT PURGES

THE SOVIET COMMUNIST PARTY

RECONSIDERED, 1933-1938

J. ARCH GETTY

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First published 1985

First paperback edition 1987

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Getty, J. Arch (John Archibald), 1950-

Origins of the great purges.

(Soviet and East European studies)

Bibliography: p.

1. Kommunisticheskaia Partiia Sovetskogo Soiuza -

Purges — History. 2. Soviet Union — Politics and

government - 1917-1936. 3. Soviet Union - Politics

and government — 1936—1953. 4. Political purges —

Soviet Union — History. I. Title. II. Series.

JN6598.K7G43 1985

84-12718

ISBN 0 521 25921 5 hard covers

ISBN 0 521 33570 1 paperback

Transferred to digital printing 2003

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Contents

List of tables

page vi

Preface

vii

Introduction: the Great Purges as history

1 The Communist Party in the thirties

2 What was a purge?

3 The Verification of Party Documents of 1935:

a case study in bureaucratic ineptitude

4 Radicalism and party revival

5 Radicalism and enemies of the people

113

6 The crisis matures: 1937

137

7 Epilogue: the Ezhovshchina

172

Conclusion: some observations on politics in the

thirties

196

Appendix: the Kirov assassination

207

Bibliographic essay

211

Notes

221

Index

271

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