The Good People: Loyalty and Betrayal in Moscow’s House of Government, 1937–1938
This essay is an abridged and revised excerpt from the book The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution. It deals with the reactions to mass arrests of 1937–1938 within the House of Government in Moscow, including silence, vigilance, book-burning, soul-searching, and self-sacrifice. T...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Latvia Press
2021-03-01
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| Series: | Latvijas Universitātes Žurnāls. Vēsture |
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| Online Access: | https://journal.lu.lv/luzv/article/view/556 |
| Summary: | This essay is an abridged and revised excerpt from the book The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution. It deals with the reactions to mass arrests of 1937–1938 within the House of Government in Moscow, including silence, vigilance, book-burning, soul-searching, and self-sacrifice. The central questions have to do with the puzzle of what constituted moral behavior, what was meant by loyalty and betrayal, and who, and why, could be considered a “good person.”
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| ISSN: | 2500-9621 2592-9593 |