Great Purge

The Great Purge is the name given to campaigns of political repression and persecution in the Soviet Union during the late 1930s which included purges of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Further reading and references

• Rehabilitation: As It Happened. Documents of the CPSU CC Presidium and Other Materials. Vol. 2, February 1956-Early 1980s. Moscow, 2003. Compiled by A. Artizov, Yu. Sigachev, I. Shevchuk, V. Khlopov under editorship of acad. A.N. Yakovlev.
• Robert Conquest: The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties. 1968.
• Robert Conquest, The Great Terror: A Reassessment, Oxford University Press, May 1990, hardcover, ISBN 0195055802; trade paperback, Oxford, September, 1991, ISBN 0195071328
• J. Arch Getty and Oleg V. Naumov, The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks,Yale University Press, 1999.
• J. Arch Getty and Roberta T. Manning, Stalinist Terror: New Perspectives, New York, Cambridge University Press, 1993.
• Nicolas Werth, Karel Bartosek, Jean-Louis Panne, Jean-Louis Margolin, Andrzej Paczkowski, Stephane Courtois, The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression, Harvard University Press, 1999, hardcover, 858 pages, ISBN 0674076087. Chapter 10: The Great Terror, 1936-1938.
• John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, In Denial : Historians, Communism, and Espionage, Encounter Books, September, 2003, hardcover, 312 pages, ISBN 1893554724
• Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon, 1940, ISBN 0553265954
• Rehabilitation: Political Processes of 30-50th years, in Russian (????????????. ???????????? ???????? 30-50-? ?????), editor: Academician A.N.Yakovlev, 1991 ISBN 5250-01429-1