The Kirov Murder and Soviet History

By: Matthew E. Lenoe

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Hardcover | 25 May 2010 | Edition Number 1

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Drawing on" "hundreds of newly available, top-secret KGB and party Central Committee documents, historian Matthew E. Lenoe reexamines the 1934 assassination of Leningrad party chief Sergei Kirov. Joseph Stalin used the killing as the pretext to unleash the Great Terror that decimated the Communist elite in 1937-1938; these previously unavailable documents raise new questions about whether Stalin himself ordered the murder, a subject of speculation since 1938.
The book includes translations of 125 documents from the various investigations of the Kirov murder, allowing readers to reach their own conclusions about Stalin's involvement in the assassination.

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"A grippingly constructed narrative."-Susanne Hillman, Australian Slavonic and East European Studies -- Susanne Hillman * Australian Slavonic and East European Studies *
"Lenoe's own investigation of the murder is the most authoritative, complete, and convincing to date. The author deserves thanks for assembling and translating the documents, and for producing a work which not only provides a masterful interpretation of the murder itself, but also sheds light on the workings of Soviet politics and vicissitudes of Soviet history more generally. While the book is aimed at the specialist, it manages at the same time to be a gripping read."-Sarah Davies, The Russian Review -- Sarah Davies * The Russian Review *
Winner of the 2011 Reginald Zelnik Book Prize in History sponsored by the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies -- Reginald Zelnik Book Prize in History * Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies *

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List of Maps	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. x
Note on Translation, Transliteration, and Dates	p. xiii
Note on Soviet Government and Territorial Structures	p. xv
Note on the Documents and Citations	p. xviii
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations	p. xx
List ot Archives Cited	p. xxiv
Introduction	p. 1
From Kostrikov to Kirov, 1886-1925	p. 19
Conquering Leningrad, 1925-1929	p. 64
Kirov in Leningrad, 1930-1934	p. 107
The Scene of the Crime	p. 149
Leonid Nikolaev	p. 179
Nikolaev Agonistes	p. 208
Stalin Responds	p. 251
Fingering the Zinovievites	p. 279
The Trials of the Moscow and Leningrad "Centers"	p. 323
Investigating the Leningrad NKVD	p. 389
The Kirov Murder and the Great Terror	p. 453
Rumors, Speculation, and the Martyr Cult	p. 487
The Kirov Murder in the West, 1934-1956	p. 526
The Politics of Rehabilitation and the Kirov Murder, 1953-1957	p. 555
Shatunovskaya's Investigation and After	p. 606
Conclusion	p. 670
Appendix: Biographical Sketches	p. 693
Notes	p. 739
Index of Documents	p. 809
General Index	p. 815
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