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Show Trials Stalinist Purges in Eastern Europe, 1948-1954
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George Herman Hodos
Book Code: C2783
ISBN: 0-275-92783-0
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-92783-7
209 pages, bibliog.
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 11/17/1987
List Price: $106.95 (UK Sterling Price: £59.95)
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Subjects: Reviews:
  • . . . making his book not only a comprehensive history of the great frame-ups in the people's democracies, but also a masterful attempt to explain the logic of self-denunciation by former communist officials. . . . Hodos's book fills in many missing points in the history of Eastern Europe's Stalinization.
    —Orbis
Description: Show Trials combines first-hand knowledge with hitherto unpublished, confidential material, to offer a penetrating and candid account of the Stalinist purges that occurred in Albanian, East German, Bulgarian, and Rumanian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.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Prelude in Albania
  • The Kostov Trial in Bulgaria
  • The Field Connection
  • The Road to the Rajk Trial
  • Preparations for the Model Trial
  • The Rajik Trial
  • The Unleashed Terror in Prague
  • The Slánsky Trial
  • The Reinterpreted Show Trials in Romania
  • The Interrupted Show Trials in East Germany
  • The Polish Way of Show Trials
  • Consequences and Conclusions
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author
LC Card Number: 87-13769
LCC Class: KJC67
Dewey Class: 345
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