When Financial Audits Becomes Political: Rethinking the Origins of Stalin’s Terror (opens in new tab)

In this blog post Alex Royt (The Wharton School) presents their research, some of which will be presented at the upcoming EHS Conference. — Why do political purges sometimes follow episodes of economic disorder? Historians usually explain the Stalin’s Terror of 1936–38 as an episode of political consolidation or ideological radicalization within the Soviet state. […] The post When Financial Audits Becomes Political: Rethinking the Origins of Stalin’s Terror appeared first on Economic History ...