The Murder of Kirov. The Deadly Mystery of the Stalin Era

The book is dedicated to one of the key events of the Stalin time – the murder on December 1, 1934, of the first secretary of the Leningrad regional committee of the party, S.M. Kirov, and the reaction to it, which resulted in the mass repressions of 1937–1938. Historians believe that the shot in Smolny marked the beginning of the 'great purge of the party' and the 'great terror' – tragic events, for which I.V. Stalin is considered the organizer.
The author, Grover Fur, is an American historian, Ph.D., and bachelor of arts, professor – known for his bestsellers on the Stalinist era, investigates the documentary materials related to the investigation of the circumstances of S.M. Kirov's murder and the subsequent trials of the participants in the Trotskyist-Zinovievist opposition. The book is structured as an analysis of the latest publications, including materials from foreign archives – the Library of Congress in the USA, the Houghton Library of Harvard University, and others. Debunking errors and forgeries, the renowned author analyzes the entire spectrum of politically biased rumors and speculations, myths, and legends related to the murder of S.M. Kirov.