Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial - Scenes From the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine

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.

List of contents

• Chronology


• A Note on Usage


• Glossary


• Introduction


• Chapter 1: The Incomplete Civil War and the Great Terror


• Chapter 2: A Taste for Terror


• Chapter 3: Vania the Terrible


• Chapter 4: Under the Dictation of Fleishman


• Chapter 5: What Happened in Uman?


• Chapter 6: An Excursion to Zaporozh'e


• Chapter 7: Upsenskii's Stooge


• Postscript


• Conclusion


• Acknowledgments


• Notes


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Lynne Viola is Professor of History at the University of Toronto. She is the author of The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin's Special Settlements, Peasant Rebels Under Stalin, The Best Sons of the Fatherland, co-editor of Russian Peasant Women, and editor/co-editor of six other books. Viola is a recipient of the Thomas Henry Pentland Molson Prize from the Canada Council for the Arts.

Summary

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.

Additional text

Viola's wonderful book has shown ... that it is most helpful for understanding the post-war trials to better explore the pre-war practices and inner dynamics of the NKVD.

Product details

• Authors: Lynne Viola, Lynne (Professor of History Viola, Viola Lynne
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9780190053857
• ISBN: 978-0-19-005385-7
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Ukraine, History: specific events & topics, European History, LAW / Legal History, HISTORY / Modern / 21st Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Legal History, History: specific events and topics, c 1930 to c 1939, c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Political oppression & persecution, Political oppression and persecution, HISTORY / Russia / General