"Presents a new and original explanation of the Stalin's Terror based on intelligence materials in Russian archives. It shows how Soviet leaders developed a grossly exaggerated fear of conspiracy and foreign invasion and lashed out at enemies largely of their own making"--Back o…
Une biographie, très documentée et alimentée par des sources jusqu'ici inaccessibles. A l'heure de la liquidation des idéologies, il reste des vies. Celle de Staline éclaire d'une lumière crue les sources d'un totalitarisme qui fit tant de morts.
Despite continued interest in the Gulag, academic scholarship has failed to move beyond the strict divide between 'criminal' and 'political' prisoners. This is largely due to the lack of memoirs from outside the intelligentsia and misconceptions perpetuated in mainstream culture…
Asked shortly after the revolution about how she viewed the new government, Tatiana Varsher replied, "With the wide-open eyes of a historian." Her countrywoman, Zinaida Zhemchuzhnaia, expressed a similar need to take note: "I want to write about the way those events were perceiv…
Asked shortly after the revolution about how she viewed the new government, Tatiana Varsher replied, "With the wide-open eyes of a historian." Her countrywoman, Zinaida Zhemchuzhnaia, expressed a similar need to take note: "I want to write about the way those events were perceiv…