The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939

This gripping book assembles and translates into English for the first time top secret Soviet documents from 1932 to 1939, the era of Stalin's purges. The nearly 200 documents-dossiers, police reports, private letters, secret transcripts, and more-expose the hidden inner workings of the Communist Party and the dark inhumanity of the purge process.

Author Biography: J. Arch Getty is professor of modern Russian history at the University of California, Riverside. Oleg V. Naumov is deputy direct...