The Great Fear: Stalin's Terror of the 1930s

by James Harris

Book Overview

Between the winter of 1936 and the autumn of 1938, approximately three quarters of a million Soviet citizens were subject to summary execution. More than a million others were sentenced to lengthy terms in labour camps. Commonly known as 'Stalin's Great Terror', it is also among the most misunderstood moments in the history of the twentieth century. The Terror gutted the ranks of factory directors and engineers after three years in which all major...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199695768
• ISBN13: 9780199695768
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.6"