| Titre | Накануне большого террора : Армия и оппозиция. | |
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| Auteur | Boris Orlov | |
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Revue |
Cahiers du monde russe Titre à cette date : Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique |
| Numéro | volume 32, no 3, juillet-septembre 1991 | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Chronique |
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| Page | 409-423 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Boris Orlov, On the eve of the Great Terror: the army and the opposition.
The problem of Army participation in Party opposition fighting is studied very poorly. Publications of new documents contribute to a better understanding of the epoch of terror, mostly of its first period.
In the twenties, the Army people did participate in Party opposition, fighting against Stalin's power. The opposition of Trotsky was supported rather weakly by the Red Army, in spite of the fact that a few eminent Army officers were on its side (Primakov, Putna, Schmidt).
The right wing opposition was not popular in the Army but, in the early thirties, there were some efforts to have top Army officers (such as Blukher) on its side. The beginning of the terror in the Army is tied up to the arrests of Officers, - former members of the Party opposition -, and to efforts to organize, in the fall of 1936, a trial against "Trotskist officers" with Primakov and Putna as the main accused. These efforts failed because of the resistance of the arrested officers to the harsh interrogation methods.
Later on, the Primakov-Putna case was included in the trial of Tukhachevsky and other top officers, so that the "Army officers" trial assumed a "Trotskist" nuance. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/cmr_0008-0160_1991_num_32_3_2290 |
