Moscow, 1937 av Karl (European University of Viadrina) Schloegel

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Moscow, 1937: the soviet metropolis at the zenith of Stalin¿s dictatorship. A society utterly wrecked by a hurricane of violence. <br/><br/> In this compelling book, the renowned historian Karl Schl¿gel 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 ¿ 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.<br/><br/> He shows how, in the shadow of the reign of terror, the regime around Stalin also