| Description |
x, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : Toward a social history of terror -- The social crisis of industrialization -- From murder to mass conspiracy -- Mobilizing mass support for repression -- The campaign for union democracy -- Victims and perpetrators -- Rituals of repression in the factories -- Conclusion. |
| Summary |
"Terror and Democracy in the Age of Stalin is the first comprehensive study of popular participation in the "Great Terror," a period in which millions of people were arrested, interrogated, shot, and sent to labor camps. The book shifts attention from the machinations of top party leaders to the mechanisms by which repression engulfed Soviet society. In the unions and the factories, repression was accompanied by a mass campaign for democracy. Party leaders urged workers to criticize and remove corrupt and negligent officials. Workers, shop foremen, local party members, and union leaders adopted the slogans of repression and used them, often against each other, to redress long-standing grievances, shift blame for intractable problems in production, and advance personal agendas. Repression quickly became a mass phenomenon, not only in the number of victims it claimed, but also in the number of perpetrators it spawned. |
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Using new, formerly secret, archival sources, Terror and Democracy in the Age of Stalin takes us into the unions and the factories to observe how ordinary people moved through clear stages towards madness and self-destruction."--Jacket. |
| Subject |
Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953.
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Political persecution -- Soviet Union.
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Political purges -- Soviet Union.
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Soviet Union -- Social conditions.
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Soviet Union -- Economic conditions.
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| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1934-1938
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| ISBN |
9780521866149 hardback |
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0521866146 hardback |
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9780521685092 paperback |
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0521685095 paperback |
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