{"product_id":"origins-of-the-great-purges-the-soviet-communist-party-reconsidered-1933-1938-paperback","title":"Origins of the Great Purges: The Soviet Communist Party Reconsidered, 1933 1938 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJ. Arch Getty\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJohn Archibald Getty\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a study of the structure of the Soviet Communist Party in the 1930s. Based upon archival and published sources, the work describes the events in the Bolshevik Party leading up to the Great Purges of 1937-1938. Professor Getty concludes that the party bureaucracy was chaotic rather than totalitarian, and that local officials had relative autonomy within a considerably fragmented political system. The Moscow leadership, of which Stalin was the most authoritarian actor, reacted to social and political processes as much as instigating them. Because of disputes, confusion, and inefficiency, they often promoted contradictory policies. Avoiding the usual concentration on Stalin's personality, the author puts forward the controversial hypothesis that the Great Purges occurred not as the end product of a careful Stalin plan, but rather as the bloody but ad hoc result of Moscow's incremental attempts to centralise political power.\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.73 x 8.62 x 6.24 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 30, 1987\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42133368864903,"sku":"9780521335706","price":56.61,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/7efcb43f50cbd824c337015ceb1d9767.webp?v=1732633765","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/origins-of-the-great-purges-the-soviet-communist-party-reconsidered-1933-1938-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}