On Stalin and Stalinism: Historical Essays, by Roy Medvedev
On Stalin and Stalinism: Historical Essays (O Staline i Stalinizme: Istoricheskiye Ocherki)
Author: Roy Medvedev
Year: 1989
Publisher: Znamya (Original) - English: JPRS-UPA
Place of Publication: Original: Moscow - English: Washington
Number of pages: 142
Language: English
Moscow ZNAMYA in Russian No 1, Jan 89; No 2, Feb 89; No 3, Mar 89; No 4, Apr 89 [Collection of essays by Roy Medvedev, "O Staline i Stalinizme: Istoricheskiye Ocherki," published in ZNAMYA, journal of the USSR Writers' Union]
JPRS report (Soviet Union). Foreign Broadcast Information Service.
Part 1: The Rise of Stalinism... 1
Stalin at the Head of the VKP(b)... 1
The Struggle Against the Opposition..... 14
Methods of Carrying Out Collectivization and Industrialization... 32
Aggravation of the Domestic and Foreign Situation in the Early 1930s... 43
The Assassination of S. M. Kirov. The Trials of Former Leaders of the Opposition... 54
Attack on the Principal Party and State Workers (1937-1938)....68
Rehabilitations and Repressions, 1939-1941... 87
Illegal Methods of Investigation and Detention... 93
On the Personal Responsibility of Stalin for the Terror of 1937-1938... 101
Conditions Which Facilitated Stalin's Usurpation of Power... 118
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