The Road To Terror by J. Paul Getty
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.
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