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Article: Stalin's need for terror

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November 8, 1999
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THE ROAD TO TERROR: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939 by J Arch Getty and Oleg V Naumov (Yale, 22.50) STALIN'S Great Terror traumatised generations of Soviet citizens and continues to have consequences in Russia today. How else do we explain the extreme reluctance of Russians to take part in public life? Under Stalin, only the most ambitious and foolhardy took such a risk and it may well be years before the political apathy of the Russian people is overcome.

In the 1930s, Stalin was not the only murderous dictator in Europe. Hitler rivalled him in bestial policy. But there was much about Stalin that distinguished him from his German competitor. The terror ...

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