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Agents of Terror - Ordinary Men and Extraordinary Violence in Stalin's Secret Police (Hardcover)
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Agents of Terror - Ordinary Men and Extraordinary Violence in Stalin's Secret Police (Hardcover)
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In the Great Terror of 1937-38 more than a million Soviet citizens
were arrested or killed for political crimes they didn't commit.
What kind of people carried out this violent purge, and what
motivated them? This book opens up the world of the Soviet
perpetrator for the first time. Focusing on Kuntsevo, the Moscow
suburb where Stalin had a dacha, Alexander Vatlin shows how
Stalinism rewarded local officials for inventing enemies. Agents of
Terror reveals stunning, detailed evidence from archives available
for a limited time in the 1990s. Going beyond the central figures
of the terror, Vatlin takes readers into the offices and
interrogation rooms of secret police at the district level. Spurred
at times by ambition, and at times by fear for their own lives,
agents rushed to fulfill quotas for arresting "enemies of the
people" -even when it meant fabricating the evidence. Vatlin pulls
back the curtain on a Kafkaesque system, forcing readers to
reassess notions of historical agency and moral responsibility in
Stalin-era crimes.
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