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Origins of the Great Purges
This is a study of the structure of the Soviet Communist Party in the 1930s. Based upon archival and published sources, the work describes the events in the Bolshevik Party leading up to the Great Purges of 1937-1938. Professor Getty concludes that the party bureaucracy was chaotic rather than totalitarian, and that local officials had relative autonomy within a considerably fragmented political system. The Moscow leadership, of which Stalin was the most authoritarian actor, reacted to social and political processes as much as instigating them. Because of disputes, confusion, and inefficiency, they often promoted contradictory policies. Avoiding the usual concentration on Stalin's personality, the author puts forward the controversial hypothesis that the Great Purges occurred not as the end product of a careful Stalin plan, but rather as the bloody but ad hoc result of Moscow's incremental attempts to centralise political power.
Politics & Purges in China
This study provides an analysis of rectification campaigns and high level elite purges during the 1950-65 period; a broad examination of the norms shaping inner Party life generally and their decline in the pre-Cultural Revolution period; and a major reinterpretation of key developments in and the nature of elite conflict at the Politboro level from 1949 to 1965. While this edition presents the same text as the first edition of 1979, an extensive (55-page) new introduction offers Teiwes's reflections on the interpretations and arguments of the study which have been stimulated by the materials that have subsequently become available. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Purging the Poorest
The building and management of public housing is often seen as a signal failure of American public policy, but this is a vastly oversimplified view. In Purging the Poorest, Lawrence J. Vale offers a new narrative of the seventy-five-year struggle to house the “deserving poor.” In the 1930s, two iconic American cities, Atlanta and Chicago, demolished their slums and established some of this country’s first public housing. Six decades later, these same cities also led the way in clearing public housing itself. Vale’s groundbreaking history of these “twice-cleared” communities provides unprecedented detail about the development, decline, and redevelopment of two of America’s most famous housing projects: Chicago’s Cabrini-Green and Atlanta’s Techwood /Clark Howell Homes. Vale offers the novel concept of design politics to show how issues of architecture and urbanism are intimately bound up in thinking about policy. Drawing from extensive archival research and in-depth interviews, Vale recalibrates the larger cultural role of public housing, revalues the contributions of public housing residents, and reconsiders the role of design and designers.
The Great Terror
Robert Conquest's The Great Terror is the book that revealed the horrors of Stalin's regime to the West. This definitive fiftieth anniversary edition features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum. One of the most important books ever written about the Soviet Union, The Great Terror revealed to the West for the first time the true extent and nature Stalin’s purges in the 1930s, in which around a million people were tortured and executed or sent to labour camps on political grounds. Its publication caused a widespread reassessment of Communism itself. This definitive fiftieth anniversary edition gathers together the wealth of material added by the author in the decades following its first publication and features a new foreword by leading historian Anne Applebaum, explaining the continued relevance of this momentous period of history and of this classic account.
The Permanent Purge
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Roosevelt's Purge
In his first term in office, Franklin Roosevelt helped pull the nation out of the Great Depression with his landmark programs. In November 1936, every state except Maine and Vermont voted enthusiastically for his reelection. But then the political winds shifted. Not only did the Supreme Court block some of his transformational experiments, but he also faced serious opposition within his own party. Conservative Democrats such as Senators Walter George of Georgia and Millard Tydings of Maryland allied themselves with Republicans to vote down New Deal bills. Susan Dunn tells the dramatic story of FDRÕs unprecedented battle to drive his foes out of his party by intervening in Democratic primari...
The Red Army and the Great Terror
On June 11, 1937, a closed military court ordered the execution of a group of the Soviet Union's most talented and experienced army officers, including Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevskii; all were charged with participating in a Nazi plot to overthrow the regime of Joseph Stalin. There followed a massive military purge, from the officer corps through the rank-and-file, that many consider a major factor in the Red Army's dismal performance in confronting the German invasion of June 1941. Why take such action on the eve of a major war? The most common theory has Stalin fabricating a "military conspiracy" to tighten his control over the Soviet state. In The Red Army and the Great Terror, Peter White...
The Literati Purges
Preliminary Material /Edward Willett Wagner --Introduction /Edward Willett Wagner --The Setting /Edward Willett Wagner --The Purge of 1498 /Edward Willett Wagner --The Purge of 1504 /Edward Willett Wagner --The Purge of 1519 /Edward Willett Wagner --The Summing Up /Edward Willett Wagner --List of Government Offices and Posts /Edward Willett Wagner --Sillok Locations of Date Citations /Edward Willett Wagner --Notes /Edward Willett Wagner --General Glossary /Edward Willett Wagner --Glossary of Names of Persons Appearing in the Text /Edward Willett Wagner --Bibliography /Edward Willett Wagner --Index /Edward Willett Wagner --Harvard East Asian Monographs /Edward Willett Wagner.
