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Stalinist confessions : messianism and terror at the Leningrad Communist University
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- Creator
- Igal Halfin
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2009]
- ©2009
- Physical Details
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- vii, 485 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780822943679, 0822973529, 0822943670, 0822960168, 9780822960164, 9780822973522
- OCLC
- ocn884586499, ocn794927928, ocn297144833
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: The Revolution devours its children -- The winds of purge -- The NKVD and the extraction of confessions -- Pandemonium at Communist University -- Messianic times -- The final curtain -- Epilogue: The truth of sacrifice
Subjects
- Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953 -- Influence.
- Leningradskiĭ kommunisticheskiĭ universitet -- History.
- Soviet Union. Narodnyĭ komissariat vnutrennikh del
- Higher education and state -- Soviet Union -- History.
- College students -- Political activity -- Soviet Union -- History.
- Political messianism -- Soviet Union -- History.
- State-sponsored terrorism -- Soviet Union -- History.
- Political purges -- Soviet Union -- History.
- Political psychology -- History -- 20th century.
- Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1936-1953.