Stalin's Terror of the 1930s has long been a popular subject for
historians. However, while for decades, historians were locked in a
narrow debate about the degree of central control over the terror
process, recent archival research is underpinning new, innovative
approaches and opening new perspectives. Historians have begun to
explore the roots of the Terror in the heritage of war and mass
repression in the late Imperial and early Soviet periods; in the
regime's focus not just on former "oppositionists," wreckers and
saboteurs, but also on crime and social disorder; and in the common
European concern to identify and isolate "undesirable" elements.
Recent studies have examined in much greater depth and detail the
precipitants and triggers that turned a determination to protect
the Revolution into a ferocious mass repression.
The Anatomy of Terror is an edited volume which brings together the
work of the leading historians in the field, presenting not only
the latest developments in the subject, but also the latest
evolution of the debate. The sixteen chapters are divided into
eight themes, with some themes reflecting the diversity of sources,
methodologies and angles of approach, others showing stark
differences of opinion. This opens up the field of study to further
research, and this volume will proof indispensable for historians
of political violence and of the era of Stalinist Terror.
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