Moscow, 1937

Moscow, 1937: the soviet metropolis at the zenith of Stalin-s dictatorship. A society utterly wrecked by a hurricane of violence.

In this compelling book, the renowned historian Karl Schl-gel reconstructs with meticulous care the process through which, month by month, the terrorism of a state-of-emergency regime spiraled into the -Great Terror- during which 1 - million human beings lost their lives within a single year. He revisits the sites of show trials and executions and, by also consulting numerous sources from the time, he provides a masterful panorama of these key events in Russian history.

He shows how, in the shadow of the reign of terror, the regime around Stalin also