"Yezhov Vs. Stalin: The Truth About Mass Repressions and the So-Called 'Great Terror' in the USSR" is the first accurate account of the so-called “Great Terror” in the Soviet Union in 1937-1938. In this book, Grover Furr answers the central questions concerning the mass repressions known as the “Ezhovshchina” or, by anticommunists, the “Great Terror”:* What caused it?* Did hundreds of thousands of innocent victims meet their deaths?* Was Joseph Stalin responsible for these murders, as is universally claimed?* If — as the evidence demands that we conclude — Stalin was innocent and in fact put a stop to this massive crime, why were Ezhov and his men able to go on killing many innocent people for more than a year?The present study answers these questions.Grover Furr has studied all the available evidence, most of it from formerly-secret Soviet archives. He offers original translations of key historical documents and detailed analysis of their significance in an important synthesis that effectively reconsiders one of the pivotal events of Soviet history.
Author(s): Grover Furr
Edition: 2
Publisher: Erythros Press and Media, LLC
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 252
City: Kettering
Chapter 1. Elections
Chapter 2. Conspiracy
Chapter 3. Convergence of Conspiracy and Elections
Chapter 4. From the February-March 1937 CC Plenum to the June 1937 CC Plenum
Chapter 5. The June 1937 Central Committee Plenum
Chapter 6. Causes of the Repressions
Chapter 7. The Course of the Repressions
Chapter 8. The Elections
Chapter 9. The Mass Repressions Are Stopped
Chapter 10. The Ezhov Conspiracy
Chapter 11. Frinovskii's Statement to Beria April 11, 1939
Chapter 12. Ezhov's Interrogation of April 26, 1939
Chapter 13. Ezhov's Interrogation of August 4, 1939
Chapter 14. Other Interrogations of Ezhov
Chapter 15. The Testimony of Stanislav Frantsevich Redens
Chapter 16. Source Criticism of Interrogations and Confessions
Chapter 17. What Really Happened
Chapter 18. Conclusion
