Kirov Murder and Soviet History

by Matthew E. Lenoe

Drawing on hundreds of newly available, top-secret KGB and party Central Committee documents, historian Matthew E. Lenoe reexamines the 1934 assassination of Leningrad party chief Sergei Kirov. Joseph Stalin used the killing as the pretext to unleash the Great Terror that decimated the Communist elite in 1937-1938; these previously unavailable documents raise new questions about whether Stalin himself ordered the murder, a subject of speculation since...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030011236X
• ISBN13: 9780300112368
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 872 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.3" x 6.3" x 9.4"