See also purges Antonov, Aleksandr, 47 Antonov-Ovseenko, Vladimir, 87, 90 Apanasenko, Josef, 248 ARCOS (All-Russian Cooperative Society), 112–113 army party organizations criticisms of, 227 expulsions from, 153, 180–181, 184–186, 208 role in military purge of, 234, 252, 258, 260 ...
They hoped to affect the coup through the Kremlin Guard and the students of the military academy in the Kremlin, who, they believed, would obey their orders; but they had the gravest doubts about the mass of the Army and the nation as a whole, which prompted them to seek German aid in...
During the second half of the 1930s, Stalin instituted the Great Purge, a series of campaigns designed to rid the Communist Party, the military and other parts of Soviet society from those he considered a threat. Additionally, Stalin built a cult of personality around himself in the Soviet Un...
First is its author, the son of a Stalin purge victim but himself once a seemingly orthodox colonel general among the military's political commissars and, more lately, a radical critic of the Soviet military and a Yeltsin confidant. Second, the author has worked with party, army and state ...
Stalin was convinced of Hitler's integrity and ignored warnings from his military commanders that Germany was mobilizing armies on its eastern front. When the Nazi blitzkrieg struck in June 1941, the Soviet Army was completely unprepared and immediately suffered massive losses. Stalin was so distrau...
Stalin's policy of amassing dictatorial power under the guise of building "socialism in the country" resulted in brutal extermination of all real and perceived anti-Communist opposition. His purges of the Soviet military brought about the execution of tens of thousands of army officers, many of ...
To eradicate those regarded as "enemies of the working class", from 1934 to 1939 Stalin organised the "Great Purge" in which hundreds of thousands - including senior political and military figures - were interned in prison camps, exiled or executed. THE DEATH OF STALIN More results ► Legal...
First is its author, the son of a Stalin purge victim but himself once a seemingly orthodox colonel general among the military's political commissars and, more lately, a radical critic o... R Legvold - 《Foreign Affairs》 被引量: 17发表: 1991年 Stalin's Loyal Executioner: People's ...
The Soviet High Command: A Military-Political History 1918–1941 by John Erickson (review) Themaiorquestion of theinvolvement of themilitary in theGreatPurge isprobably theleast illuminated topicinthewholestudy, leaning heavilyon Krivitsky's revelations of overtwentyyearsago. (His book,I Was Stalin...
Stalin declared war on Soviets he considered tainted by their connections to the political movements that had come before him. Beginning in 1934 he wiped out an ever-changing group of political “enemies.” An estimated 750,000 people died during theGreat Purge, as it is now known, and more...