Rancorous Luminaries
R.W. Davies, 28 April 1994
Stalinist Terror: New Perspectives
edited by J. Arch Getty and Roberta Manning.
Cambridge, 294 pp., £35, September 1993,0 521 44125 0 Show More
edited by J. Arch Getty and Roberta Manning.
Cambridge, 294 pp., £35, September 1993,
Beria: Stalin’s First Lieutenant
by Amy Knight.
Princeton, 312 pp., £19.95, January 1994,0 691 03257 2 Show More
by Amy Knight.
Princeton, 312 pp., £19.95, January 1994,
This I Cannot Forget: The Memoirs of Nikolai Bukharin’s Widow
by Anna Larina.
Hutchinson, 385 pp., £25, March 1994,0 09 178141 8 Show More
by Anna Larina.
Hutchinson, 385 pp., £25, March 1994,
Stalin i Ordzhonikidze: Konflikty v Politbyuro v 30-e gody
by O.V. Khlevnyuk.
Rossiya Molodaya, 144 pp., December 1993,5 86646 047 5 Show More
by O.V. Khlevnyuk.
Rossiya Molodaya, 144 pp., December 1993,
“... mining officials. Nor was the Great Purge confined to the towns. Using the Smolensk archives, Roberta Manning concludes that in the Belyi agricultural district as many as 15 per cent of rural party members were expelled in the single year 1937, and many of these were arrested. The interplay between politics and society under Stalinism has been even ... ”
