Enemies Within the Gates?: The Comintern and the Stalinist Repression, 1934-1939 - Couverture rigide

Chase, William J.

 
9780300082425: Enemies Within the Gates?: The Comintern and the Stalinist Repression, 1934-1939
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0300082428 ISBN 13 : 9780300082425
Editeur : Yale University Press, 2002

Synopsis

This compelling work of documentary history tells a story of idealism betrayed, a story of how the Comintern (Communist International), an organization established by Lenin in 1919 to direct and assist revolutionary movements throughout the world, participated in and was ultimately destroyed by the Stalinist repression in the late 1930s. Presenting and drawing on recently declassified archival documents, William J. Chase analyzes the Comintern's roles as agent, instrument, and victim of terror.

In both principle and practice, the Comintern was an international organization, with a staff that consisted primarily of Communist émigrés who had fled dictatorial regimes in Europe and Asia. It was, however, headquartered in Moscow and controlled by Soviet leaders. This book examines the rise of suspicions and xenophobia among Soviet and Comintern leaders and cadres for whom many foreigners were no longer the heroes of the class struggle but rather possible enemy agents. Some Comintern members internalized and acted on Stalin's theories about the infiltration of foreign spies into Soviet society, supplying the Soviet police with information that led to the exile or execution of imigris. Thousands of other imigris also became victims of the purges. Together the text and documents of this book convey graphically the essential roles played by the Comintern, providing a unique perspective on the era of Stalinist repression and terror.

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À propos de l?auteur

William J. Chase is professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh.

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Éditeur
Yale University Press
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0300082428
ISBN 13 
9780300082425
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
560
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Personne responsable
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