Stalin's Last Crime

On January 13, 1953, the world learned that a vast conspiracy among Jewish doctors to murder Kremlin leaders had been unmasked. Pravda reported that several of the doctors had already confessed to the crime. Mass arrests quickly followed. Less than two months later, Stalin died, taking the secret of the ''Doctor''s Plot,'' as it came to be called, with him. But what was the truth behind this bizarre incident? Was it Stalin''s creation, or that of his Kremlin subordinates? How was it related to contemporary world events, including the Cold War? And did the ''plot'' have any actual connection with Stalin''s death? In Stalin''s Last Crime, Jonathan Brent and Vladimir P. Naumov draw on an astounding array of recently declassified documents, exposing for the first time the incredible story of the Doctors'' Plot. Jonathan Brent, Editorial Director of Yale University Press and founder of its distinguished Annals of Communism series, holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He lives in Connecticut. Vladimir Pavlovich Naumov, professor of history, has been Executive Secretary of the Presidential Commission for the Rehabilitation of Repressed Persons since its inception under Gorbachev. He is the author of numerous articles and books on Soviet history, and is co-editor of Stalin''s Secret Pogrom. He lives in Russia. ''It is the best book ever written on the Doctors'' Plot and one of the best analyses of the Stalinist soul.'' - Financial Times

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Jonathan Brent, editorial director of Yale University Press and founder of its distinguished Annals of Communism series, holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and is writing a biography of the Soviet Jewish writer Isaac Babel.

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A new investigation, based on previously unseen KGB documents, reveals the startling truth behind Stalin's last great conspiracy. On January 13, 1953, a stunned world learned that a vast conspiracy had been unmasked among Jewish doctors in the USSR to murder Kremlin leaders. Mass arrests quickly followed. The Doctors' Plot, as this alleged scheme came to be called, was Stalin's last crime. In the fifty years since Stalin's death many myths have grown up about the Doctors' Plot. Did Stalin himself invent the conspiracy against the Jewish doctors or was it engineered by subordinates who wished to eliminate Kremlin rivals? Did Stalin intend a purge of all Jews from Moscow, Leningrad, and other major cities, which might lead to a Soviet Holocaust? How was this plot related to the cold war then dividing Europe, and the hot war in Korea? Finally, was the Doctors' Plot connected with Stalin's fortuitous death? Brent and Naumov have explored an astounding arra of previously unknown, top-secret documents from the KGB, the presidential archives, and other state and party archives in order to probe the mechanism of on of Stalin's greatest intrigues -- and to tell for the first time the incredible full story of the Doctors' Plot.

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