Stalin hesitated for almost two weeks in May-June 1937 before giving the NKVD the go ahead for the purge of the top Red Army leadership. His response to the growing evidence provided by Nicolai Yezhov ...

Like Stalin he proved himself devious ... Soon he was preparing the dossiers of those to be liquidated in the Great Purges of 1935-38. He replaced those who died with men loyal to himself ...

Stalin hid out in his dacha for 10 days before addressing the public, or how the execution of virtually all senior military commanders in the Great Purge contributed to the military disasters that ...

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