J. Arch Getty

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John Archibald Getty, III (born November 30, 1950 ) is an American historian specializing in the history of the Soviet Union in the time of Stalin . He teaches at the University of California , Los Angeles .

Books

  • John Arch Getty and Roberta T. Manning : Stalinist Terror: New Perspectives , New York, Cambridge University Press, 1993. ISBN 0-521-44670-8
  • J. Arch Getty, Oleg V. Naumov . The Central Party Archive: A Research Guide , Univ. Pittsburgh Center for Russian. 1993. ISBN 99944-868-6-1
  • John Archibald Getty Origins of the Great Purges: The Soviet Communist Party Reconsidered, 1933-1938 , New York, Cambridge University Press, 1985. Ninth printing, 1996. ISBN 0-521-33570-1
  • J. Arch Getty, Oleg V. Naumov, The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939 , Yale University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-300-09403-5
  • Stalin's "Iron Fist:" The Times and Life of NI Yezhov , Yale University Press, 2008. ISBN 0-300-09205-9
  • J. Arch Getty Practicing Stalinism: Bolsheviks, Boyars, and the Persistence of Tradition , Yale University Press, 2013, ISBN 0-300-16929-9

items

  • "Stalin as Prime Minister: Power and the Politburo," in Sarah Davies and James Harris, Stalin: A New History , Cambridge University Press, 2005, 83-107.
  • "'Excesses are not permitted:' Mass Terror Operations in the Late 1930s and Stalinist Governance," The Russian Review , 16: 1, January 2002, 112-137.
  • "Mr. Ezhov Goes to Moscow: The Rise of a Stalinist Police Chief," in William Husband, ed., The Human Tradition in Modern Russia , New York, 2000, 157-174.
  • "Samokritika Rituals in the Stalinist Central Committee, 1933-1938," The Russian Review , 58: 1, January, 1999, 49-70.
  • "Afraid of Their Shadows: The Bolshevik Recourse to Terror, 1932-1938," in Stalinism before World War II. New ways of research , ed. Manfred Hildermeier and Elisabeth Mueller-Luckner , Munich, 1998.
  • "Victims of the Soviet Penal System in the Prewar Years: A First Approach on the Basis of Archival Evidence," (with Gabor T. Delphinium, and VN Zemskov), American Historical Review , 98: 4, October. 1993
  • "Trotsky in Exile: The Founding of the Fourth International," Soviet Studies , vol. XXXVIII, no. 1, January 1986, 24-35.

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personal data
SURNAME Getty, J. Arch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Getty, John Archibald III
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1950