Episode 110 - Comradely Bonds, Part II

Today is our conclusion to this season's miniseries on the Soviet Union. The final years of the 20s saw the USSR slip into paranoia over fears of foreign invasion and subversion at home. It would be the perfect conditions for Stalin to move against his enemies in the Communist leadership, which is to say everyone that didn't swear blind loyalty to him.

 

Bibliography for this episode: 

 

1. Kotkin, Stephen Stalin: Paradoxes of Power 1878-1928 Penguin Books 2015
2. Fitzpatrick, Sheila On Stalin's Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics Princeton University Press 2015
3. Rayfield, Donald Stalin and His Hangmen: The Tyrant and Those Who Killed For Him Random House 2004
4. Cohen, Steven Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography, 1888-1938 Oxford University Press 1980

 

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