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Klappentext This collection of essays contributes to the understanding of Stalinist terror in the 1930s. Zusammenfassung This collection of essays contributes to the understanding of Stalinist terror in the 1930s. Although Stalin remains the central personality in the terror! other leaders! institutions! and social groups played important roles! and by analyzing them helps to provide a more complete and balanced view of the phenomenon of the terror as a whole. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Introduction J. Arch Getty and Roberta T. Manning; Part I. Persons and Politics: 1. Narkom Ezhov Boris A. Starkov; 2. The politics of repression revisited J. Arch Getty; Part II. Backgrounds: 3. The second coming: class enemies in the Soviet countryside, 1927-1935 Lynne Viola; 4. The omnipresent conspiracy: on Soviet imagery of politics and social relations in the 1930s Gábor T. Rittersporn; 5. The Soviet economic crisis of 1936-1940 and the great purges Roberta T. Manning; 6. The Stakhanovite movement: the background to the great terror in the factories, 1935-1938 Robert Thurston; Part III. Case Studies: 7. The great terror on the local level: purges in Moscow factories, 1936-1938 David L. Hoffman; 8. The great purges in a rural district: Belyi Raion revisited Roberta T. Manning; 9. The Red Army and the great purges Roger R. Reese; 10. Stalinist terror in the Donbas: a note Hiroaki Kuromiya; Part IV. Impact and Incidence: 11. Patterns of repression among the Soviet elite in the late 1930s: a biographical approach J. Arch Getty and William Chase; 12. The impact of the great purges on Soviet elites: a case study from Moscow and Leningrad telephone directories of the 1930s Sheila Fitzpatrick; 13. Victims of Stalinism: how many? Alec Nove; 14. More light on the scale of repression and excess mortality in the Soviet Union in the 1930s Stephen G. Wheatcroft; Index.
