Stalinist confessions : messianism and terror at the Leningrad Communist University

Publication Data

• Title Stalinist confessions : messianism and terror at the Leningrad Communist University
• Author Igal Halfin
• Publisher University of Pittsburgh Press
• Publication date 2009
• Publication location Pittsburgh, Pa.
• Language English

Contents

Introduction: The Revolution devours its children
The winds of purge
The NKVD and the extraction of confessions
Pandemonium at Communist University
Messianic times
The final curtain
Epilogue: The truth of sacrifice.

Topics

• Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953 :: Influence
• Leningradskiĭ kommunisticheskiĭ universitet :: History
• Soviet Union. Narodnyĭ komissariat vnutrennikh del
• Higher education and state :: Soviet Union :: History
• College students :: Political activity :: Soviet Union :: History
• Political messianism :: Soviet Union :: History
• State-sponsored terrorism :: Soviet Union :: History
• Political purges :: Soviet Union :: History
• Political psychology :: History :: 20th century
• Soviet Union :: Politics and government :: 1936-1953
• Soviet Union

Stalinist confessions : messianism and terror at the Leningrad Communist University by Igal Halfin. ISBN 9780822960164. Published by University of Pittsburgh Press in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.