Zemskov V. N. The great turning point. The true scale of Stalin’s purges. Moscow: Prospekt, 2022. 760 p.: Book review
Smirnitsky Alexander Evgenievich
Nizhny Novgorod Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia
Submitted: 08.05.2024
Abstract. The peer-reviewed publication covers a wide range of issues related to the political purges in the USSR in the 1930s-1950s. The work also contains research on the role of the working class in resisting the German fascists on Soviet territory during the Great Patriotic War. The monograph will be necessary for anyone who studies the history of the development of Soviet society in the 1930s-1950s.
Key words and phrases: репрессии, ссыльнопоселенцы, репатрианты, эмигранты, невозвращенцы, рабочий класс, purges, deportees, repatriates, emigrants, non-returnees, working class
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