Interview with Stalin Expert Prof. Arch Getty

Arch Getty interviewed by James Harris

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Further Reading re 'Stalin & The Great Terror'

Recommended by Prof. J. Arch Getty, UCLA.

J. Arch Getty, The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939, 1999.

J. Arch Getty, 'Excesses Are not Permitted: Mass Terror and Stalinist Governance in the Late 1930s,' Russian Review 61: 1 (January 2002), 134-35.

James Harris, “The purging of local cliques in the Urals region, 1936-37” in Sheila Fitzpatrick, ed., Stalinism: New Directions, 2000.

Oleg V. Khlevniuk, The History of the Gulag: From Collectivization to the Great Terror, 2004.

Oleg V. Khlevniuk, 'The Objectives of the Great Terror, 1937-1938,' in Soviet History, 1917-53: Essays in Honour of R. W. Davies, ed. E. A. Rees, 1995, 158-76

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Stalin & The Great Terror

Arch Getty, UCLA.
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James Harris, University of Leeds, is currently in the process of bringing many of the world's leading experts on The Terror to a conference in Leeds, this August (2010). The conference website is developing as we write and can be seen at www.36to38.com.

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Summer Offerings & News

Well, we've been busy over the start of the summer and I thought I would just bring you up-to-date with what's new and upcoming. Finally, we've put two offerings from respected Stalin scholar Prof. J. Arch Getty (UCLA) up. In one standard podcast, Professor Getty demystifies Stalin and The Great Terror, a subject upon which Professor Getty is one of the world's leading experts. In the other we have a 50 -minute interview with Professor Getty by our own Dr. James Harris (Leeds), another leading authority on Stalin. The two chat about Professor Getty's career, his influences, his interests and, of course, analyse the work that has brought him to international prominence.

We have also been fimlming a series of 5 methodological podcasts by Kevin Yuill (Sunderland) and Chris Prior (Leeds), looking at using the internet as a study resource, how to read and research as an historian, writing skills and much more... These will take slightly longer to edit and finish because of the embedded links, images and so on but should be up for the beginning of the new school year.

As if this wasn't enough, we have also just finished filming a series of other podcasts which are about to be edited and will go online towards the end of September (or hopefully earlier ;-)). They are:

Glenn Richardson (St. Mary's) - four podcasts looking at Henry VIII, his decisionmaking, and the times in which he reigned.
John Gooch (Leeds) - two podcasts looking at the outbreak of the First World War, and a further podcast on Mussolini and his Generals.
Malcolm Chase (Leeds) - a podcast on studying Labor History, and more specifically Chartism, on the internet - not simply methodological, the podcast also contains much historical context.
Moritz Foellmer (Leeds) - 2 podcasts focused upon Weimar Germany and one on the rise of The Nazi Party and Hitler.

Additionally, at the end of August we will be filming 3 podcasts from Natalie Mears (Durham) talking about Elizabethan and broader Tudor History.

Please keep your comments, requests, and feedback coming in. It is a very important part of what we do and helps us to help you.

Best wishes,

Jonathan.