Show Trials: Stalinist Purges in Eastern Europe, 1948-1954 Review

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(More customer reviews)Show trials were a significant part of Joseph Stalin's regime until his death 1953. Voices were silenced a long time ago. More than 50 years after the events the formerly top secret archives are open for historians. In the meantime all kept their silence; no interviews, no memoires.
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Show Trials combines first-hand knowledge with hitherto unpublished, confidential material, to offer a penetrating and candid account of the Stalinist purges that occurred in Albanian, East German, Bulgarian, and Rumanian purges, as well as in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. George Hodos shows how these trials played a pivotal role in consolidating Soviet domination over the satellite countries during Stalin's lifetime. As an important addition to our understanding of these events and times, Show Trials is essential for historians of Eastern Europe and absorbing reading for anyone interested in world affairs.