1.43 Выкорчёвывание инакомыслия и убийство Кирова

Dr. Alexander Shubin opens the lecture at 00:00 with a statement about the ideal nature of state leadership, then at 01:41 he explains how the party dealt with critics, at 03:40 he questions whether "vagrants" were real, at 06:09 he discusses the New Economic Policy and the party crisis after Lenin's death, at 07:30 he addresses whether discussions of power became dangerous, at 08:57 he examines what was not fabricated, at 09:40 he speculates on the consequences of heightened revolutionary sentiment, at 12:40 he urges confession, at 13:32 he presents the "Pромпартия" case, at 14:32 he quotes Stalin saying "time to stop the trial‑and‑murder work", at 15:36 he explains why the party began to show dissatisfaction with academics, at 19:10 he covers the "Весна" case and the mass purge of officers, at 20:14 he discusses Stalin's disagreement with Tukhachevsky, at 23:03 he explains the creation of the Soviet military‑industrial complex, at 25:13 he shows why both left and right were dissatisfied with Stalin, at 29:28 he considers the consequences of banning public criticism, at 29:56 he explains why Ryzhkov was replaced by Molotov as People's Commissar of Defense, at 32:19 he discusses who wanted to remove Stalin, at 33:54 he explains how a clandestine party was created to fight Stalin, at 36:02 he examines the impact of Rutin's subversive manifesto, at 38:11 he discusses the mystery of the 17th Party Congress, at 39:30 he explains how Bukhari became editor‑in‑chief of Izvestia, at 41:08 he describes the easing of conditions in the country, at 42:56 he explains why Alexei Tolstoy was commissioned to write a novel about Peter I, at 44:04 he discusses the "Neonep" and who improved, at 46:03 he describes the social status of Soviet people, at 48:04 he discusses the hopes placed on Ordzhonikidze and the degree of criticism of Stalin, at 48:47 he explains why Stalin stopped using the term "General Secretary", at 50:09 he explains how and why Kirov was killed, at 1:00:35 he discusses the potential of "worked‑out cannon meat", at 1:02:33 he examines how the masses reacted to Kirov's murder, at 1:03:54 he discusses the treatment of terrorist cases, at 1:05:19 he explains how NKVD chief Yagoda investigated Kirov's case, at 1:14:03 he covers the Kremlin case of 1935, and at 1:20:12 he explains how Stalin began to cleanse the country and how the terror machine spun.