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xi, 399 pages ; 25 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction: The inverted world -- 1. The untimely death of Comrade Zhdanov: Moscow, September 6, 1948 -- 2. Stalin's silence: Valdai, August 1948 -- 3. The pygmy and the terrorist: Lubyanka-Lefortovo, November 1950-March 1951 -- 4. The grand plan: "Nothing" comes from nothing: Lubyanka, July 1951-August 1951 -- 5. Recognizing the enemy: Lubyanka, August 1951-November 1951 -- 6. Waiters in white gloves: Lubyanka, November 1951-November 1952 -- 7. An intelligence phantasmagoria: The plan of the internal blow, 1951-1953 -- 8. Spies and murderers under the mask of doctors: November 1952-December 1952 -- 9. The great storm: January-February 1953 -- 10. The end: Stalin's Blizhnyaya Dacha, March, 1-5, 1953 -- Conclusion: The conspiratorial mind -- Glossary of names and organizations. |
| Summary |
"On January 13, 1953, a stunned world learned that a vast conspiracy had been unmasked among Jewish doctors in the USSR to murder Kremlin leaders. Mass arrests quickly followed. The Doctors' Plot, as this alleged scheme came to be called, was Stalin's last crime." "In the fifty years since Stalin's death many myths have grown up about the Doctors' Plot. Did Stalin himself invent the conspiracy against the Jewish doctors or was it engineered by subordinates who wished to eliminate Kremlin rivals? Did Stalin intend a purge of all Jews from Moscow, Leningrad, and other major cities, which might lead to a Soviet Holocaust? How was this plot related to the cold war then dividing Europe, and the hot war in Korea? Finally, was the Doctors' Plot connected with Stalin's fortuitous death?"--BOOK JACKET. |
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Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953 -- Views on Jews.
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Jews -- Persecutions -- Soviet Union.
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Jewish physicians -- Soviet Union.
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Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1936-1953.
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Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953.
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Physicians. (DNLM)D010820 |
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Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953 (OCoLC)fst00053304
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Jewish physicians. (OCoLC)fst00982889
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Jews. (OCoLC)fst00983135
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Jews -- Persecutions.
(OCoLC)fst00983322
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Politics and government (OCoLC)fst01919741
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Soviet Union. (OCoLC)fst01210281
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| Chronological Term |
1925-1953
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Naumov, Vladimir Pavlovich.
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| ISBN |
0719554489 |
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9780719554483 |
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