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Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial - Scenes from the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine (Hardcover)
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Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial - Scenes from the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine (Hardcover)
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Between the summer of 1937 and November 1938, the Stalinist regime
arrested over 1.5 million people for "counterrevolutionary" and
"anti-Soviet" activity and either summarily executed or exiled them
to the Gulag. While we now know a great deal about the experience
of victims of the Great Terror, we know almost nothing about the
lower- and middle-level Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del
(NKVD), or secret police, cadres who carried out Stalin's murderous
policies. Unlike the postwar, public trials of Nazi war criminals,
NKVD operatives were tried secretly. And what exactly happened in
those courtrooms was unknown until now. In what has been dubbed
"the purge of the purgers," almost one thousand NKVD officers were
prosecuted by Soviet military courts. Scapegoated for violating
Soviet law, they were charged with multiple counts of fabrication
of evidence, falsification of interrogation protocols, use of
torture to secure "confessions," and murder during pre-trial
detention of "suspects" - and many were sentenced to execution
themselves. The documentation generated by these trials, including
verbatim interrogation records and written confessions signed by
perpetrators; testimony by victims, witnesses, and experts; and
transcripts of court sessions, provides a glimpse behind the
curtains of the terror. It depicts how the terror was implemented,
what happened, and who was responsible, demonstrating that orders
from above worked in conjunction with a series of situational
factors to shape the contours of state violence. Based on chilling
and revelatory new archival documents from the Ukrainian secret
police archives, Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial illuminates the
darkest recesses of Soviet repression - the interrogation room, the
prison cell, and the place of execution - and sheds new light on
those who carried out the Great Terror.
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