Getty A., Naumov O. The Road to Terror. Stalin & the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999 — 666 p. — ISBN10: 0300077726; ISBN13: 978-0300077728.A collection of formerly top-secret Soviet documents from Stalin's great purges of 1932 to 1939. Exposing to daylight the hidden inner workings of the Communist Party and the dark inhumanity of the purge process, it seeks to deepen our understanding of Soviet history.Notes on Transliteration and Terminology.
A Note on the Documents.
Soviet Organizational Acronyms and Abbreviations.
Introduction: Party Documents and Bolshevik Mentality.
Closing Ranks.
The New Situation, 1930-32.
Party Discipline in 1932.
Repression and Legality.
Growing Tension in 1935.
Screening Cadres.
The Fork in the Road.
The Terror.
The Face of the Enemy, 1936.
The Tide Turns.
The Sky Darkens.
Party Discipline and the Fall of Bukharin.
The Storm of 1937: The Party Commits Suicide.
Ending the Terror, 193 8.
Two Bolsheviks.Appendixes.
Numbers of Victims of the Terror.
Biographical Sketches.
Index of Documents.