Inside The Stalin Archives: The Secrets of The Great Terror

www.mslaw.edu Why is Stalin, a leader responsible for the deaths of millions of his countrymen, still a revered and popular figure in Russia today? Jonathan Brent takes us on a fascinating tour of Stalin's private papers.
Stalin's own library reveals his hatred of Trotsky and his fascination with Lenin. Brent discusses how Stalin used the assassination of Sergei Kirov to launch the great purge, the ways in which the great terror infected every aspect of society, how Stalin destroyed the church and every other element of a civil society and even controlled who his closest friends and confidants would marry.
In this presentation of The Massachusetts School of Law's program, Books of Our Times, Dean Lawrence R. Velvel interviews Jonathan Brent on his book, Inside the Stalin Archives: Discovering the New Russia.
Mr. Brent is the director of YIVO Institute and founder of the Yale University Press's distinguished Annals of Communism series.
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