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1. 1. How To Be Rich

   

   A compact, opinionated guide from a self-made businessman offering blunt, practical rules for acquiring and keeping wealth: focus on saving and sensible investing, prefer assets to liabilities, hire able people, take calculated risks, and cultivate discipline, frugality, and long-term thinking; the book mixes anecdotes and maxims to stress common-sense decision-making, persistence, and seizing opportunities as the path to financial success.

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2. 2. Stalinist Terror

   

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3. 3. Practicing Stalinism

   

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4. 4. Origins Of The Great Purges

   

   Drawing on archival research, the book reinterprets the causes and mechanics of the mid-1930s Soviet purges, arguing they resulted from a complex interplay of central directives, local party dynamics, security-service initiatives, denunciations, and bureaucratic incentives rather than from a single, preplanned conspiracy. It traces how institutional rivalries, fear-driven paperwork and arrest quotas, and the practices of the NKVD produced escalating cycles of accusation, show trials, and mass repression, reshaping responsibility for and understanding of how the terror unfolded.

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5. 5. The Road To Terror

   

   Drawing on archival evidence, the book traces how the Soviet campaign of arrests, purges, and show trials in the 1930s arose from interactions among central leaders, security organs, and local party officials; rather than a simple top-down imposition, the terror expanded through bureaucratic competition, quotas, denunciations, and administrative pressures that encouraged forced confessions and the self-destruction of Bolshevik cadres. It reconstructs policies and episodes from the early 1930s through 1939 to show how ideological imperatives, perceived threats, and institutional dynamics combined to produce mass repression, fracture party cohesion, and reshape Soviet political culture, offering a revisionist account that emphasizes complexity and contingency in the origins and operation of Stalinist terror.