It has never been easy to find English translations of good primary sources for the study of the Stalin era. The USSR was a profoundly secretive state. Before the opening of the archives in 1991, there didn’t seem to be much to work with. A trickle of new document collections has been released since then, but one of the best and biggest collections has been around much longer, and strangely has almost been forgotten.
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