Moscow, 1937

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An award-winning account of Stalin&rsquo ; s reign of terror when 1. 5 million people lost their lives in a single year. Karl Schlogel reconstructs the process through which, month by month, the terrorism of a state-of-emergency regime spiraled into the &lsquo ; Great Terror&rsquo.

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

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Publication Date:©2012.

Publication Statements

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

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Traduction de: Terror und Traum.

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Description:xix, 652 p. : : ill., carte ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780745650760, 0745650767
oclc:ocn840064440
LC Classification:DK267
Dewey Decimal:947.310842

Margarita's flight : Manuscripts don't burn. A writer in 1937 -- Relief map of the city, locations, staging posts -- Dramatis personae and their portrayal, dual characters -- NKVD, the organization -- "People vanished from their apartments without trace" -- Sudden deaths, execution as spectacle -- 'That can't be!' -- Aleksandr Medvedkin's New Moscow- A new cityscape: Stalin's General Plan for the Reconstruction of Moscow -- Moscow as a construction site: between demolition and new construction -- Moscow beyond the Ring Roads -- Human landscape, struggle for survival -- Snapshot of the status quo. Directories as documents of their age -- Topography of power and other locations -- Traces of the disappeared -- Lists of people to be shot and the posthumous reconstruction of their addresses -- World-historical criminal cases: the rhetoric of the first Moscow show trial -- The echo of violence: how a latent civil war comes to be articulated in language -- 'Double-dealers' -- The birth of the show trial from the spirit of lynch-law -- The ideal enemy -- A key scene in European intellectual history: Feuchtwanger's meeting with Stalin -- The impotence of the anti-fascist movement: how to g…

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Communist party purges Communist party purges -- History History Moscou (Russie) Moscou (Russie) -- 1900-1945 Moscou (Russie) -- Conditions sociales … Moscou (Russie) -- Histoire -- 20e sièc… Moscou (Russie) -- Politique et gouvern… Moscou, Procès de (1936-1937) 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… Stalin, Joseph