This podcast discusses Stalin’s military purge, a part of the Great Terror which has received relatively little attention in the literature. Peter Whitewood advances a new explanation for why Stalin attacked his officer corps during 1937-38, showing that to understand the military purge the analysis needs to begin with the formation of the Red Army in early 1918. Over the course of nearly twenty years the Red Army was perceived as vulnerable to a range of threats, from hostile White Guards to...

This podcast discusses Stalin’s military purge, a part of the Great Terror which has received relatively little attention in the literature. Peter Whitewood advances a new explanation for why Stalin attacked his officer corps during 1937-38, showing that to understand the military purge the analysis needs to begin with the formation of the Red Army in early 1918. Over the course of nearly twenty years the Red Army was perceived as vulnerable to a range of threats, from hostile White Guards to...

This podcast discusses Stalin’s military purge, a part of the Great Terror which has received relatively little attention in the literature. Peter Whitewood advances a new explanation for why Stalin attacked his officer corps during 1937-38, showing that to understand the military purge the analysis needs to begin with the formation of the Red Army in early 1918. Over the course of nearly twenty years the Red Army was perceived as vulnerable to a range of threats, from hostile White Guards to...

This podcast discusses Stalin’s military purge, a part of the Great Terror which has received relatively little attention in the literature. Peter Whitewood advances a new explanation for why Stalin attacked his officer corps during 1937-38, showing that to understand the military purge the analysis needs to begin with the formation of the Red Army in early 1918. Over the course of nearly twenty years the Red Army was perceived as vulnerable to a range of threats, from hostile White Guards to...