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Podcast: Dr Peter Whitewood – The Red Army and the Great Terror

Dr. Peter Whitewood (York St. John University, UK) has written an authoritative account of Stalin's purge of the Red Army in the lead up to the Second World War. He joined us to talk about the history of state violence in Russia prior to 1917 and how terror became an important feature of the Soviet system after the October Revolution.

 

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