Stalinist Terror in Eastern Europe: Elite purges and mass repression

McDermott, Kevin [Editor]; Stibbe, Matthew [Editor];

ISBN 10: 0719089026 / ISBN 13: 9780719089022

Edité par Manchester University Press, 2012

N° de réf. du vendeur 0719089026-4-34786523

Synopsis :

This wide-ranging collection of essays, newly available in paperback, is the first book in English to examine the impact of Stalinist terror on Eastern Europe in the years 1940 to 1956.

Covering the Baltic states, Moldavia, East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Albania, the authors investigate terror both 'from above', in the form of elite purges and show trials, and 'from below' in the guise of large-scale arrests and deportations of ordinary people. Key questions addressed include the relative importance of Soviet influence versus 'local' factors; the persecution of particular groups, such as 'kulaks', church leaders, the middle-class intelligentsia and members of non-communist left-wing parties; cases where repression was more, or conversely less, intense than elsewhere; and the relevance of key events such as the Tito-Stalin split of 1948, the Rajk trial of 1949 and the Slánský trial of 1952.

À propos des auteurs: Kevin McDermott is Senior Lecturer in Political History at Sheffield Hallam University

Matthew Stibbe is Professor of Modern European History at Sheffield Hallam University

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Stalinist Terror in Eastern Europe: Elite ...
Éditeur : Manchester University Press
Date d'édition : 2012
Reliure : paperback
Etat : Fair