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 Press
• The 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.

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