General Information

Author/Creator

Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 1928-2017.

Language

English.

Published

Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1956.

Physical Description

256 p. ; 22 cm.

Contents/Summary

Summary

1. The purge and the totalitarian system -- 2. The purge as a technique of totalitarian government -- 3. The Soviet concept of purge -- 4. The expansion and evolution of the Stalinist purge, 1930-1936 -- 5. The mass purge and terror coalesce: the violent stage, 1936-1938 -- 6. The impact -- 7. The safety valves -- 8. The delicate stage, 1946-1952 -- 9. The purge and the struggle for the Stalinist succession -- 10. Summary and conclusion.

Subjects

Subject

Communist state.

Totalitarianism.

Trials (Political crimes and offenses) > Europe, Eastern.

Soviet Union > Politics and government > 1936-1953.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Zbigniew K. Brzezinski.

Series

Russian Research Center studies ; 20

Note

Includes indexes, p. 251-256.

Library Special Collection

HU OSA 300 - RFE/RL collection

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	947.084 BRZ		OSA Repository	-

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