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Karl Schlögel - Moscow, 1937 - 9780745650777 - V9780745650777
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Moscow, 1937

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Description for Moscow, 1937 Paperback. * An award-winning account of Stalin s reign of terror when 1. 5 million people lost their lives in a single year. * Karl Schlogel reconstructs the process through which, month by month, the terrorism of a state-of-emergency regime spiraled into the Great Terror . Num Pages: 650 pages, illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; JPVR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 49. Weight in Grams: 1014.
Moscow, 1937: the soviet metropolis at the zenith of Stalin’s dictatorship. A society utterly wrecked by a hurricane of violence. 

In this compelling book, the renowned historian Karl Schlögel reconstructs with meticulous care the process through which, month by month, the terrorism of a state-of-emergency regime spiraled into the ‘Great Terror’ during which 1 ½ million human beings lost their lives within a single year. He revisits the sites of show trials and executions and, by also consulting numerous sources from the time, he provides a masterful panorama of these key events in Russian history.
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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
650
Condition
New
Number of Pages
650
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745650777
SKU
V9780745650777
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99-2

About Karl Schlögel
KARL SCHLÖGEL is Professor of Eastern European History at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt. Moscow, 1937 was awarded the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding in 2009.

Reviews for Moscow, 1937
Winner of the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding "An almost impossibly rich masterpiece. The density and seriousness, the deliberation and literary art of this exhilarating tour de force testifies to the enduring value and purpose of that perhaps now-vanishing triumph of the human intellect, the book." The Atlantic, best five books of 2012 ... Read more

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