Bolshevism in the Purges: The Party That Ate Itself
Julian Reed-Purvis investigates Stalin's role in the origins of the great purges.
The late 1930s saw the beginning of a truly frightening period in the history of the Soviet Union. The Workers' State turned in on itself as millions of prominent, and not so prominent, Soviet citizens were denounced as traitors to the socialist cause. Men who had helped to found the Soviet Union, such as Kamenev, Zinoviev and Bukharin, confessed to the most heinous crimes and were condemned to death, after carefully choreographed trials. Who was to blame for this catastrophe?
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