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Political Science Russian & Former Soviet Union

Laboratories of Terror

The Final Act of Stalin's Great Purge in Soviet Ukraine

edited by Lynne Viola & Marc-Stephan Junge

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Initial publish date
Dec 2022
Category
Russian & Former Soviet Union

  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780197647554
    Publish Date
    Dec 2022
    List Price
    $42.99

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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.

About the authors

Lynne Viola is Professor of History at the University of Toronto. She is the author of The Best Sons of the Fatherland and Peasant Rebels Under Stalin and coeditor of The War against the Peasantry.

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