{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6744b7b7507c8fc412f628e8/68348ca93162cb8205ff423b?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Remembering J. Arch Getty","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6744b7b7507c8fc412f628e8/1748274247081-4a755147-b4e7-4ca8-a54a-beb8b0d97197.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Last week, our friend, mentor, teacher, and comrade, J. Arch Getty, died from his battle with lung cancer. As a way to remember him, here’s an interview I did with Arch in 2017 about his career and scholarship.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Guest:</strong></p><p><br></p><p>J. Arch Getty was a Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Los Angeles.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Books discussed in this interview:</p><ul><li><em>Origins of the Great Purges: The Soviet Communist Party Reconsidered, 1933–1938</em>, Cambridge University Press</li><li><em>The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939</em>, Yale University Press.</li><li><em>Yezhov: The Rise of Stalin's 'Iron Fist'</em>, Yale University Press.</li><li><em>Practicing Stalinism: Boyars, Bolsheviks and the Persistence of Tradition</em>, Yale University Press.</li></ul>","author_name":"The Eurasian Knot"}