The road to terror : Stalin and the self-destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939

This gripping book assembles and translates into English for the first time top secret Soviet documents from 1932 to 1939, the era of Stalin's purges.

The nearly 200 documents, including dossiers, police reports, private letters and secret transcripts, expose the hidden inner workings of the Communist Party and the dark inhumanity of the purge process.