Remembering J. Arch Getty

Last week, our friend, mentor, teacher, and comrade, J. Arch Getty, died from his battle with lung cancer. As a way to remember him, here’s an interview I did with Arch in 2017 about his career and scholarship.Guest:J. Arch Getty was a Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Books discussed in this interview:Origins of the Great Purges: The Soviet Communist Party Reconsidered, 1933–1938, Cambridge University PressThe Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939, Yale University Press.Yezhov: The Rise of Stalin's 'Iron Fist', Yale University Press.Practicing Stalinism: Boyars, Bolsheviks and the Persistence of Tradition, Yale University Press. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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