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Informationen zum Autor Kevin McDermott is Senior Lecturer in Political History at Sheffield Hallam University Matthew Stibbe is Professor of Modern European History at Sheffield Hallam University Klappentext This volume examines Stalinist terror in Eastern Europe in the period 1940 to 1956. It covers instances of elite purges from the party and state hierarchy, including the infamous show trials staged against leading communists and the impact such practices had on wartime and post-war societies in the region. Zusammenfassung This volume examines Stalinist terror in Eastern Europe in the period 1940 to 1956. It covers instances of elite purges from the party and state hierarchy! including the infamous show trials staged against leading communists and the impact such practices had on wartime and post-war societies in the region. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis List of abbreviations and glossary of termsList of archives and archival abbreviationsNotes on contributors1. Stalinist terror in Eastern Europe: Problems, perspectives and interpretations - Kevin McDermott and Matthew Stibbe2. Soviet in form, local in content: Elite repression and mass terror in the Baltic States, 1940-53 - Aldis Purs3. Stalinist terror in Soviet Moldavia, 1940-53 - Igor Casu4. East Germany, 1945-53: Stalinist repression and internal Party purges - Matthew Stibbe5. Stalinism in Poland, 1944-56 - Lukasz Kaminski6. Stalinist terror in Czechoslovakia: Origins, processes, responses - Kevin McDermott7. Stalinist terror in Hungary, 1945-56 - László Borhi8. Political purges and mass repression in Romania, 1948-55 - Dennis Deletant9. Stalinist and anti-Stalinist repression in Yugoslavia, 1944-53 - Jerca VoduSek Staric10. Stalinist terror in Bulgaria, 1944-56 - Jordan Baev11. Purge and counter-purge in Stalinist Albania, 1944-56 - Robert C. AustinList of major works citedIndex
