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May 26, 2025 1 hr 2 min

Remembering J. Arch Getty

from The Eurasian Knot

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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