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On the “Letter of an Old Bolshevik” as an Historical Document

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2017

Robert C. Tucker*
Affiliation:
Princeton University

Abstract

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Type
Review Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. 1992

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References

1. Zagoria, Janet D., ed., Power and the Soviet Elite: “The Letter of an Old Bolshevik” and Other Essays by Boris T. Nicolaevsky (New York: Praeger, 1965), 5, 7.Google Scholar

2. Medvedev, Roy A., Nikolai Bukharin: The Last Years, trans. Briggs, A.D.P. (New York: Norton, 1980), 115.Google Scholar

3. Tucker, Robert C. and Cohen, Stephen F., eds., The Great Purge Trial (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1965), 384.Google Scholar

4. Power and the Soviet Elite, 15.

5. Ibid., 16.

6. For this interpretation of the two articles, see Robert C. Tucker, Stalin in Power: The Revolution from Above, 1928-1941 (New York: Norton, 1990), 361-62.

7. Anna Larina Bukharina, Nezabyvaemoe (Moscow: APN, 1989; trans. New York: W.W. Norton, 1991), 310.

8. Power and the Soviet Elite,9.

9. This interpretation of Stalin's course in 1934 has been presented in detail in Tucker, chapter 12.