The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939 by J. Arch Getty and Oleg V. Naumov was the primary source document used along with the secondary sources, Peasant Rebels Under Stalin by Lynne Viola, Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s by Sheila Fitzpatrick, Cultivating the Masses by David L. Hoffman, Inventing the Enemy by Wendy Z. Goldman, and Policing Stalin’s Socialism by David R. Shearer to conclude the origins of terror. In other words, the origins of terror were constructed from inside the Communist Party after the release of the Riutin Platform in 1932. However, one must understand there are many possibilities to the origins of terror. Authors who approached the topic of terror from the perspective of the state often concluded what the origins of terror were. On the other hand, authors whose methodological scheme looked at terror from the bottom up aspect often provided little to no answer to the origins of
The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939 by J. Arch Getty and Oleg V. Naumov was the primary source document used along with the secondary sources, Peasant Rebels Under Stalin by Lynne Viola, Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s by Sheila Fitzpatrick, Cultivating the Masses by David L. Hoffman, Inventing the Enemy by Wendy Z. Goldman, and Policing Stalin’s Socialism by David R. Shearer to conclude the origins of terror. In other words, the origins of terror were constructed from inside the Communist Party after the release of the Riutin Platform in 1932. However, one must understand there are many possibilities to the origins of terror. Authors who approached the topic of terror from the perspective of the state often concluded what the origins of terror were. On the other hand, authors whose methodological scheme looked at terror from the bottom up aspect often provided little to no answer to the origins of