Rancorous Luminaries
R.W. Davies, 28 April 1994
Stalinist Terror: New Perspectives
edited by J. Arch Getty and Roberta Manning.
Cambridge, 294 pp., £35, September 1993,0 521 44125 0 Show More
edited by J. Arch Getty and Roberta Manning.
Cambridge, 294 pp., £35, September 1993,
Beria: Stalin’s First Lieutenant
by Amy Knight.
Princeton, 312 pp., £19.95, January 1994,0 691 03257 2 Show More
by Amy Knight.
Princeton, 312 pp., £19.95, January 1994,
This I Cannot Forget: The Memoirs of Nikolai Bukharin’s Widow
by Anna Larina.
Hutchinson, 385 pp., £25, March 1994,0 09 178141 8 Show More
by Anna Larina.
Hutchinson, 385 pp., £25, March 1994,
Stalin i Ordzhonikidze: Konflikty v Politbyuro v 30-e gody
by O.V. Khlevnyuk.
Rossiya Molodaya, 144 pp., December 1993,5 86646 047 5 Show More
by O.V. Khlevnyuk.
Rossiya Molodaya, 144 pp., December 1993,
“... famine of 1932-3. The estimates made as long ago as 1946 by Lorimer, and in the Seventies by Stephen Wheatcroft and myself, proved to be too low, but many estimates by Western historians were too high. The present state of our knowledge about these grim consequences of Stalinism is succinctly summarised in Alec Nove’s 14-page chapter in Stalinist ... ”