Stalin's Last Crime: The Doctors' Plot - Couverture souple

Brent, Jonathan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0719565081 ISBN 13 : 9780719565083

Editeur : John Murray Publishers Ltd, 2004

Synopsis

On 13th January 1953, a stunned world learned that a vast conspiracy among Jewish doctors to murder Kremlin leaders had been unmasked. Pravda reported that several of the doctors had confessed to the crime. Mass arrests followed. The Doctors' Plot, as this action came to be called, was Stalin's last great criminal conspiracy. In the years since Stalin's death many myths have grown about it, while Stalin's own motives have been the object of endless speculation. Did he himself invent it or was it engineered by subordinates who wished to eliminate Kremlin rivals? Was Stalin motivated by venomous anti-Semitism? How was this plot related to the Cold War then raging in Europe and the war in Korea? And, finally, was the Doctors' Plot connected with Stalin's convenient death? Through access to previously unseen Soviet documents, this great conundrum of Cold War politics is unravelled for the first time.

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À propos de l'auteur

Jonathan Brent is Editorial Director of Yale University Press, New Haven, Conneticut and founder of the widely praised 'Annals of Communism' series. His book 'The Secret World of American Communism' (1994) led to the release of classified Second World War information by the CIA and the FBI. Vladimir P Naumov is a Professor of History at Moscow State University and the leading researcher for the Presidential Commission on the Rehabilitation of Repressed Persons. He is the author of numerous articles on the Stalinist repressions of the 1930s.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: John Murray Publishers Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0719565081
• ISBN 13: 9780719565083
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 416
• Éditeur: Naumov Vladimir P.
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