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December 1, 1934. Leningrad mayor Sergei Kirov is assassinated by a lone gunman, prompting Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin to purge the Communist Party of his rivals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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In episode 5 of our series "Understanding The Moscow Trials" we cover the assassination of Sergei Kirov. (Unfortunately some audio issues appeared near the end of the episode. It'll be resolved for next time, folks!) Here is our Patreon for those who wish to support the show! https://www.patreon.com/join/7134627 Sources: -"The Murder of Sergei Kirov: History, Scholarship and the Anti-Stalin Paradigm"- Grover Furr -https://espressostalinist.com/2013/10/23/marxist-leninist-research-bureau-the-kirov-murder/
Throughout the 1930s the forces that led to a year of terror in 1937 had been gradually developing, from the trials of bourgeois specialists in the1920s to the murder of Sergei Kirov. The regime initially looked to the population at large to show their anger and rage at figures such as Iuri Piatikov, who as a former ally of Trotsky, was cast as a saboteur and wrecker. Others were characterised as corrupt embezzlers as well as foreign agents. In a time of constant setbacks in industry and society, shortages and hunger, these accusations in the Soviet press led to widespread anger and condemnation. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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On 1 December 1934, Leonid Nikolaev, a disgruntled Bolshevik Party member, shot Sergei Kirov in the back of the head as the Leningrad Party boss approached his office in Smolny. The murder sent shockwaves throughout the Soviet leadership, which with Stalin as its helmsman, used it to concoct a wider conspiracy that fingered oppositionists as the true plotters. By 1937, Stalin had used the murder to initiate full blown political terror against his former political enemies, military leaders, intellectuals, former classes, and ordinary people. When the smoke cleared in the summer of 1938, 2.5 million people had been arrested and an estimated 700,000 had been shot, including many of the purgers themselves. Kirov’s murder is considered by most to be the crucial spark that ignited this conflagration of death. But who really killed Kirov? Was Nikolaev a lone gunman? Or did Stalin orchestrate Kirov’s murder to eliminate a potential rival and justify mass murder? Until recently, the “Stalin did it” theory served as the historical consensus despite skepticism from a few. No longer. In his 832 page tome The Kirov Murder and Soviet History (Yale University Press, 2010), Matthew Lenoe rakes a fine toothed comb over the available evidence about the murder to decisively settle the debate and examine its place in Stalinist and post-Stalinist Russia. Moreover, as part of Yale’s Annals of Communism series, the book contains 172 translated documents, most from Soviet archives. Did Stalin plot to kill Kirov? Lenoe convincingly shows that the most plausible answer to this persistent question is no. Stalin was guilty of many, many things, and certainly used the murder to his political advantage, but Kirov’s murder was the work of Nikolaev and Nikolaev alone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On 1 December 1934, Leonid Nikolaev, a disgruntled Bolshevik Party member, shot Sergei Kirov in the back of the head as the Leningrad Party boss approached his office in Smolny. The murder sent shockwaves throughout the Soviet leadership, which with Stalin as its helmsman, used it to concoct a wider conspiracy that fingered oppositionists as the true plotters. By 1937, Stalin had used the murder to initiate full blown political terror against his former political enemies, military leaders, intellectuals, former classes, and ordinary people. When the smoke cleared in the summer of 1938, 2.5 million people had been arrested and an estimated 700,000 had been shot, including many of the purgers themselves. Kirov’s murder is considered by most to be the crucial spark that ignited this conflagration of death. But who really killed Kirov? Was Nikolaev a lone gunman? Or did Stalin orchestrate Kirov’s murder to eliminate a potential rival and justify mass murder? Until recently, the “Stalin did it” theory served as the historical consensus despite skepticism from a few. No longer. In his 832 page tome The Kirov Murder and Soviet History (Yale University Press, 2010), Matthew Lenoe rakes a fine toothed comb over the available evidence about the murder to decisively settle the debate and examine its place in Stalinist and post-Stalinist Russia. Moreover, as part of Yale’s Annals of Communism series, the book contains 172 translated documents, most from Soviet archives. Did Stalin plot to kill Kirov? Lenoe convincingly shows that the most plausible answer to this persistent question is no. Stalin was guilty of many, many things, and certainly used the murder to his political advantage, but Kirov’s murder was the work of Nikolaev and Nikolaev alone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On 1 December 1934, Leonid Nikolaev, a disgruntled Bolshevik Party member, shot Sergei Kirov in the back of the head as the Leningrad Party boss approached his office in Smolny. The murder sent shockwaves throughout the Soviet leadership, which with Stalin as its helmsman, used it to concoct a wider... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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