Great Fear - Stalin''s Terror of the 1930s

A new and original explanation of Stalin's Terror, showing how Soviet leaders developed a grossly exaggerated fear of conspiracy and foreign invasion, and created a Terror that was wholly destructive, not merely in terms of human life, but also in terms of the interests of the Party that managed it.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Fear and Violence


• 2: Peace and Insecurity


• 3: The Uncertain Dictatorship


• 4: The Great Break


• 5: Relaxation?


• 6: Tensions Mount


• 7: The Perfect Storm


• Conclusion


• Bibliography

About the author

James Harris is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Leeds. He is the author of The Great Urals: Regionalism and the Evolution of the Soviet System (1999) and co-author (with Sarah Davies) of Stalin's World: Dictating the Soviet Order (2015). He co-edited (with Sarah Davies) Stalin: A New History (2005), and edited Anatomy of Terror: Political Violence under Stalin (2013).

Summary

A new and original explanation of Stalin's Terror, showing how Soviet leaders developed a grossly exaggerated fear of conspiracy and foreign invasion, and created a Terror that was wholly destructive, not merely in terms of human life, but also in terms of the interests of the Party that managed it.

Product details

• Authors: James Harris, James (Senior Lecturer in Modern European Harris, Harris James
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.09.2017
• EAN: 9780198797869
• ISBN: 978-0-19-879786-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Far-left political ideologies and movements, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Genocide & ethnic cleansing, Genocide and ethnic cleansing, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, Marxism & Communism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet, HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era