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.
