Origins Of The Great Purges by J. Paul Getty
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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