This gripping book assembles and translates into English for the first time top secret Soviet documents from 1932 to 1939, the era of Stalin's purges. The nearly 200 documents, including dossiers, police reports, private letters and secret transcripts, expose the hidden inner workings of the Communist Party and the dark inhumanity of the purge process.
- ISBN10 0300094035
- ISBN13 9780300094039
- Publish Date 8 February 2002 (first published 11 August 1999)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 3 February 2010
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Yale University Press
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 688
- Language English