Laboratories of Terror - The Final Act of Stalin's Great Purge in Soviet Ukraine (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2022
Editors:	Lynne Viola (University Professor of History) • Marc-Stephan Junge (Senior Researcher of Eastern European History)
Dimensions:	210 x 140mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	240
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-764755-4
Categories:	Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Legal history Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > Embargos & sanctions Books > History > European history > General Promotions
LSN:	0-19-764755-3
Barcode:	9780197647554

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