Background
Getty was born in Louisiana but grew up in Oklahoma.
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John Archibald
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Education
He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1972 and his Doctor of Philosophy from Boston College in 1979. He has studied the Soviet constitutions and elections of the 1930s, as well as the ancient antecedents of Soviet political practices.
Career
He is noted for his research on Russian and Soviet history, especially the period under Joseph Stalin and the history of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Getty was a professor at the University of California, Riverside before moving to University of California, Los Los Angeles
Getty established himself as a forerunner among revisionist historians of the Soviet Union with his first book, Origin of the Great Purges: The Soviet Communist Party Reconsidered, 1933-1938 (Cambridge 1985). Most recently, Getty has published a biography of North.I. Yezhov (2008).
He is a controversial figure in the field of Soviet studies, as he was one of the first to put forth the thesis that the Great Purge was planned and commanded not only by Stalin, but by Yezhov and others among Stalin"s subordinates as well.
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