Terror and Democracy in the Age of Stalin is the first book devoted
exclusively to popular participation in the 'Great Terror', a
period in which millions of people were arrested, interrogated,
shot, and sent to labor camps. The book shifts attention from the
machinations of top Party leaders to the mechanisms by which
repression engulfed Soviet society. In the unions and the
factories, repression was accompanied by a mass campaign for
democracy. Party leaders urged workers to criticize and remove
corrupt and negligent officials. Workers, shop foremen, local Party
members, and union leaders adopted the slogans of repression and
used them, often against each other, to redress long-standing
grievances, shift blame for intractable problems in production, and
advance personal agendas. Repression quickly became a mass
phenomenon; not only in the number of victims it claimed, but in
the number of perpetrators it spawned. Using new, formerly secret
archival sources, Terror and Democracy in the Age of Stalin takes
us into the unions and the factories to observe how ordinary people
moved through clear stages toward madness and self-destruction.
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