Moscow, 1937
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Moscow, 1937: the soviet metropolis at the zenith of Stalin s dictatorship. A society utterly wrecked by a hurricane of violence. In this compelling book, the renowned historian Karl Schlogel reconstructs with meticulous care the process through which, month by month, the terrorism of a state-of-emergency regime spiraled into the…
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Karl Schlögel’s masterpiece, Moscow,1937, is a gripping study of Moscow at the peak of the Stalinist Great Terror. With short chapters and a multitude of illustrations, the book leads the reader on a panoptic tour of every aspect of the city’s life in this year of mass arrests and waves of executions. Step by step, Schlögel builds a convincing case that as the Communist regime struggled to get a grip on the chaos unleashed by the regime’s own collectivization and industrialization drives, its reflexive response was to resort to political violence. The murderous frenzy that resulted changed the society…
From Steven's list on modern Russian history.
The German historian, Karl Schlögel painstakingly reconstructs one year in Stalin's terror campaign, known as the Great Purges. 1,5 million people were arrested and executed in this year alone. Through the most meticulous research, Schlögel tells us how this happened and why.
From Michael's list on Russia and USSR in the 20th Century.
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