The voices of dozens of innocent victims, silenced during Stalin's
Terror and since forgotten, can yet be heard in secret police
archives Swept up in the maelstrom of Stalin's Great Terror of
1937-1938, nearly a million people died. Most were ordinary
citizens who left no records and as a result have been completely
forgotten. This book is the first to attempt to retrieve their
stories and reconstruct their lives, drawing upon recently
declassified archives of the former Soviet Secret Police in Kiev.
Hiroaki Kuromiya uncovers in the archives the hushed voices of the
condemned, and he chronicles the lives of dozens of individuals who
shared the same dehumanizing fate: all were falsely arrested,
executed, and dumped in mass graves. Kuromiya investigates the
truth behind the fabricated records, filling in at least some of
the details of the lives and deaths of ballerinas, priests,
beggars, teachers, peasants, workers, soldiers, pensioners,
homemakers, fugitives, peddlers, ethnic Russians, Ukrainians,
Poles, Germans, Koreans, Jews, and others. In recounting the
extraordinary stories gleaned from the secret files, Kuromiya not
only commemorates the dead and forgotten but also proposes a new
interpretation of Soviet society that provides useful insights into
the enigma of Stalinist terror.
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