Laboratories of Terror explores the final chapter of Stalin's Great
Terror in Soviet Ukraine. When the Communist Party Central
Committee and the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR halted
mass operations in repression in November 1938, large numbers of
mainly Communist purge victims whose cases remained incomplete were
released. At the same time, hundreds of NKVD operatives who had
carried out the Great Terror were scapegoated and arrested. Drawing
on materials from the largely closed archives of the Soviet
security police, this collection of essays by an international team
of researchers illuminates the previously opaque world of the NKVD
perpetrator. It uncovers the mechanics and logistics of the terror
at the local level by examining the criminal files of a series of
mid-level NKVD operatives from across Ukraine. The result offers
new perspectives on both Stalin's central role in the architecture
of the terror and NKVD perpetrators' agency in implementing one of
the most horrific episodes of twentieth-century mass violence.
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