1937 Stalin's Year of Terror

"The main contention of '1937' is that the Stalinist terror, which reached its apex in that year, eventually swallowing millions of victims, was not, as much of the received wisdom holds, the product of a warped mind, not the result of Stalin's fathomless paranoia, not something so irrational as to beggar description or understanding, but the brilliantly executed plot of a man determined to obliterate every last vestige of opposition, real or potential, and to promote new cadres of men and women with no ties to the generation of the Old Bolsheviks, ruthless, unshaken in their belief that they were advancing the cause of 'socialism,' no matter what the price, and utterly faithful to the Leader."Choate, Frederick S. is the author of '1937 Stalin's Year of Terror' with ISBN 9780929087771 and ISBN 0929087771.