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Chase, William J. Enemies within the Gates? The Comintern and the Stalinist Repression, 1934-1939.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
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History: Review of New Books
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September 22, 2002| Author:
Mukhina, Irina
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Trans. Vadim A. Staklo New Haven: Yale University Press 592 pp., $35.00, ISBN 0-300-08242-8 Publication Date: November 2001
The opening of Soviet archives has released many hitherto unknown documents and prompted the creation of a new historical genre that combines recently declassified documents on Stalinist terror with innovative and revealing analysis directed at a broad readership. William J. Chase's Enemies within the Gates? is one of best of these new works and dem...
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