Sergei Kirov. The leader's unfulfilled hope
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Sergei Kirov. The leader's unfulfilled hope
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39.99 €
Sergei Mironovich Kirov is undoubtedly one of the most popular party leaders. In his time, his posthumous cult in the Bolshevik pantheon was second only to Lenin's. And Soviet conspiracy theorizing made him the first victim of Stalin's insidious plan to destroy the "Leninist Guard." Such mythology has for many decades prevented an impartial study of this very, very unusual figure. After his first revolutionary experiences, Sergei Kostrikov-Kirov clearly lost his appetite for radical means of correcting society. All his further path - is a skillful party diplomacy and the resolution of the most acute conflicts that erupted in the capitals, in the Caucasus, on the Caspian Sea. He proved himself an excellent master of settling equally interethnic clashes and factional differences. And, as can be seen from the alleged study, that is why Stalin needed, who planned to make an extremely important for the future of the USSR political reform, and without bloody excesses. The shot of a desperate party fringe destroyed not only the emerging ruling duumvirate Stalin-Kirov, but also eliminated the possibility of a peaceful transformation of the power vertical. After that, the tragedy of the Great Terror was almost inevitable.....
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