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 Schlögel reconstructs with meticulous care the process through which, month by month, the terrorism of a state-of-emergency regime spiraled into the 'Great Terror' during which 1 1D million human beings lost their lives within a single year. He revisits the.

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Full title :Moscow, 1937 / Karl Schlögel ; translated by Rodney Livingstone.

Summary

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 Schlögel reconstructs with meticulous care the process through which, month by month, the terrorism of a state-of-emergency regime spiraled into the 'Great Terror' during which 1 1D million human beings lost their lives within a single year. He revisits the.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2012.
Edition:English ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Polity
Place of Publication:Cambridge, UK
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2012.

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Colored map on endpapers.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xix, 652 pages) : : illustrations, maps (some color)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0745683584, 9780745683584, 9780745683621, 0745683622
oclc:ocn872757491
LC Classification:DK267
Dewey Decimal:947.310842

Navigation : Margarita's flight -- Moscow as a construction site : Stalin's general plan in action -- A topography of the disappeared : the Moscow directory of 1936 -- The creation of enemies : the criminal prosecution of the Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Center, 19-24 August 1936 -- "Tired of the effort of observing and understanding" : Lion Feuchtwanger's Moscow 1937 -- In the glare of battle : Spain and other fronts -- Blindness and terror : the suppressed census of 1937 -- A stage for the horrors of industrialization : the second Moscow show trial in January 1937 -- "A feast in the time of plague" : the Pushkin jubilee of 10 February 1937 -- Public death : Ordzhonikidze's suicide and death rites -- The engine room of the year 1937 : the February-March plenum of the Central Committee -- Moscow in Paris : the USSR pavilion at the International Exhibition of 1937 -- Red Square : parade ground and place of execution -- Chopin concert and killing ritual : radio and the creation of the great community -- Soviet art deco : time preserved in stone -- "Brown bodies, gaily coloured shorts" : sports parade -- Wealth and destruction : the Seventeenth International Geology Congress in M…

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Communist party purges Communist party purges -- History History HISTORY -- Eastern. -- Europe HISTORY -- Former Soviet Republics. -- … HISTORY -- Russia & the Former Soviet U… Moscou (Russie) -- Histoire -- 20e sièc… Moscow (Russia) Moscow (Russia) -- History Moscow (Russia) -- History -- 20th cent… Moscow (Russia) -- Social conditions Moscow Trials, Moscow, Russia, 1936-1937 Partis communistes -- Purges Politics and government Procès de Moscou, Moscou, Russie, 1936-… Russia (Federation) -- Moscow Social conditions Soviet Union Soviet Union -- Politics and government Soviet Union -- Politics and government…