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Stalin and the Kirov murder

by 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.

Accession 18738 ISBN 0195055799 Publisher Oxford University Press
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