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Stalin and the Kirov murder / Robert Conquest

An investigation into the 1934 assassination of Sergei Kirov and its role in Joseph Stalin's consolidation of power. The text analyses evidence of a state-sanctioned cover-up and the use of the murder to justify the political purges of the Great Terror.

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