J Arch Getty

Biographic Data

ID965414
NAMEJ Arch Getty
GIVEN NAMESJ Arch
FAMILY NAMEGetty
SIGNATUREGETTY J A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Riverside
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS32
TOTAL CITATIONS43
AUTHOR COUNT32
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1978
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX4

  • New Sources and Old Narratives

    Open AccessJ Arch GettyARTICLEContemporary European History2018Cited by: 1

    My research has been about repression within the Soviet Communist Party, so the Ukrainian famine has been on the periphery of my interests. I therefore come to it as a bit of an outsider. But some aspects of the debate are dismayingly familiar. These include wild accusations of defending Stalin and an interpretive consensus that is resistant to the anomalies of new evidence and, sometimes, of logic

  • The Road to Terror

    J Arch Getty, Benjamin Sher et al.BOOKRoad to Terror2017

    The vast and complex tragedy of Stalin’s purges, culminating in the Great Terror, made victims of millions of Russians between 1932 and 1939. This gripping book assembles and translates into English for the first time an astonishing array of formerly top secret Soviet documents from that period. Exposing to daylight the hidden inner workings of the Communist Party and the dark inhumanity of the purge process, these documents immeasurably deepen o…

  • Files, Folders, and Special Folders

    J Arch GettyARTICLEEurope Asia Studies2017

    This research note offers an outline of the origins of Stalinist secrecy policy: the conceptions behind it and the concrete practices for handling documents. It also provides an introduction to a recently declassified and still under-used set of documents, the Special Folders of the Politburo, the most secret documents of all

  • Henry E. Hale. Patronal Politics

    J Arch GettyARTICLEThe American Historical Review2016

    The evolution of Russian president Vladimir Putin’s system has renewed interest in analyzing networks of patrons and clients. Russian and Western scholarly works and even the controlled Russian press routinely refer to “clans” in Moscow today, and official spokesmen glorify the “power vertical,” a euphemism for the pyramid of clientage ruling Russia. In Patronal Politics: Eurasian Regime Dynamics in Comparative Perspective, Henry E. Hale presents…

  • Andrei Konstantinovich Sokolov, 1941-2015

    Open AccessJ Arch Getty, Lewis H Siegelbaum et al.ARTICLESlavic Review2016

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  • Letters

    Open AccessJ Arch GettyARTICLESlavic Review2014

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  • Practicing Stalinism

    J Arch GettyBOOKPracticing Stalinism2013

    In old Russia, patron/client relations, 'clan' politics, and a variety of other informal practices spanned the centuries. Government was understood to be patrimonial and personal rather than legal, and office-holding was far less important than proximity to patrons. Working from heretofore unused documents from the communist archives, J. Arch Getty shows how these political practices and traditions from old Russia have persisted throughout the 20…

  • JAN PLAMPER. The Stalin Cult

    J Arch GettyARTICLEThe American Historical Review2013

    Jan Plamper's book is likely to become the standard work on the Stalin cult. Based on broad and impressive research in archives, the press, film, and painting, it is a masterful analysis of the production of a modern political personality cult. For Plamper, such modern political cults are distinguished from their royal historical ancestors by four factors. They were the products of mass politics, used mass media, existed only in closed societies,…

  • Iron Lazar

    J Arch GettyARTICLERevolutionary Russia2012

    E. A. Rees, Iron Lazar: A Political Biography of Lazar Kaganovich . London: Anthem Press, 2012. Pp. xv + 373; figures; notes; index. £60.00 (hardback). ISBN 9-780-857283-498 For a long time we have

  • Excesses are not permitted

    Open AccessJ Arch GettyARTICLEThe Russian Review2002Cited by: 5

  • Samokritika Rituals in the Stalinist Central Committee, 1933-38

    Open AccessJ Arch GettyARTICLEThe Russian Review1999Cited by: 4

  • Britain Confronts the Stalin Revolution

    J Arch Getty, Gordon W MorrellARTICLEThe Russian Review1996

  • Viktor G. Bortnevskii, 1954-1996

    Open AccessRichard Bidlack, Jeffrey Burds et al.ARTICLESlavic Review1996

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  • The Russian Archive Series

    Donald J Raleigh, J Arch Getty et al.ARTICLEThe Russian Review1996Cited by: 1

  • Stalinist Terror

    Stephen Kotkin, J Arch Getty et al.ARTICLEThe Russian Review1995Cited by: 1

  • Stalinism

    J Arch Getty, Nick Lampert et al.ARTICLEThe Russian Review1993

    Preface N.Lampert - Notes on the Contributors - Grappling with Social Realities: Moshe Lewin and the Making of Social History R.Lew - Demons and Devil's Advocates: Problems in Historical Writing on the Stalin Era V.Andrle - Gorbachev's Socialism in Historical Perspective R.W.Davies - The Tsar, the Emperor, the Leader: Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great and Anatolii Rybakov's Stalin M.Perrie - The Omnipresent Conspiracy: On Soviet Imagery of Polit…

  • Commercialization of Scholarship

    Open AccessJ Arch GettyARTICLESlavic Review1993Cited by: 1

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  • Stalin's Special Departments

    J Arch Getty, Niels Erik RosenfeldtARTICLEThe Russian Review1991

  • State and Society under Stalin

    Open AccessJ Arch GettyARTICLESlavic Review1991Cited by: 16References: 5

    It is clear that tested by the Constitution of the Soviet Union as revised and enacted in 1936, the USSR is the most inclusive and equalised democracy in the world.Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1937Many who lauded Stalin's Soviet Union as the most democratic country on earth lived to regret their words. After all, the Soviet Constitution of 1936 was adopted on the eve of the Great Terror of the late 1930s; the "thoroughly democratic" elections to the…

  • Des Francais au Goulag, 1917-1984

    J Arch Getty, Pierre RigoulotARTICLEThe Russian Review1989Cited by: 1

  • Stalin and the Kirov Murder

    J Arch Getty, Robert ConquestARTICLEThe Russian Review1989Cited by: 1

  • Reply to Thomas Twiss

    J Arch GettyARTICLESoviet Studies1987

  • State, Society, and Superstition

    J Arch GettyARTICLEThe Russian Review1987Cited by: 1

  • The Politics of Mass Culture

    J Arch Getty, John HatchARTICLERussian History1986

  • Trotsky in exile

    J Arch GettyARTICLESoviet Studies1986Cited by: 3References: 2

    (1986). Trotsky in exile: The founding of the fourth international. Soviet Studies: Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 24-35