Enemies within the Gates

Enemies within the Gates?

The Comintern and the Stalinist Repression,

1934-1939

William J. Chase

Translations by Vadim A. Staklo

To Matthew, Alex, and Donna
May they be spared the self-righteous.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1.             History and Structure of the Comintern: A Short Course
Chapter 2.             The Kirov Murder Murder and the Call for Vigilance
Chapter 3.             The Search for "Hostile Elements" and "Suspicious" Foreigners
Chapter 4.             Campaigns Converge, Anxieties Deepen
Chapter 5.             The Victims of Vigilance
Chapter 6.             The Consequences of Vigilance
Chapter 7.             Case Studies
Chapter 8.             Concluding Thoughts

"Nothing appears more surprising to those who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few, and the implicit submission with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers. When we inquire by what means this wonder is effected, we shall find that, as Force is always on the side of the governed, the governors have nothing to support them but opinion. It is, therefore, on opinion only that government is founded, and this maxim extends to the most despotic and most military governments as well as to the most free and most popular."
David Hume, On the First Principles of Government