Interview with Stalin Expert Prof. Arch Getty

Arch Getty interviewed by James Harris

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Topography of Terror: The Historical Site

Topography of Terror: The Historical Site

Part of an exhibition discussing the Nazi Terror State & its apparatus.

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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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Stalin's Terror

Now that THF has a substantial collection of podcasts on Soviet history, I wanted to canvas the opinion of our followers on a question of particular interest to me. To what extent to you think that fear helps explain the descent into dictatorship and terror, 1921-1938? I'm thinking of all sorts of fears: fear of invasion, fear of oppositionists, of the hostility of the peasantry and workers, of the disloyalty of bourgeois specialists. It's a way of thinking beyond cliches about Stalin as motivated solely by a lust for power, and Bolshevism as an ideology of violence. In connection with this, let me suggest that you keep your eye on the link in the title--it brings you to the website of a conference I'm organising for this summer. In the coming months it should have a growing range of resources for teachers, students and others interested in Stalin's Terror.

James Harris
University of Leeds