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

Laboratories of Terror explores the final chapter of Stalin's Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine. Making use of previously classified archival documents from the newly opened former KGB archives of Ukraine, this collection of essays is the first English-language study of mid-level NKVD (KGB) operatives. It illuminates the previously opaque world of the Soviet perpetrator and the mechanics and logistics of the Great Terror at the local level.

List of contents

• Acknowledgments


• Contributors and Translators


• Glossary


• Introduction- Lynne Viola and Marc Junge


• Chapter 1: "The Party Will Demand a Full Reckoning": Korablev and the Vinnitsa NKVD- Valeriy Vasylyev and Roman Podkur


• Chapter 2: "The Party Makes Mistakes, the NKVD--Never": The NKVD in Odessa- Andrei Savin and Aleksei Tepliakov


• Chapter 3: "A Sacrificial Offering": Karamyshev and the Nikolaev NKVD- Marc Junge


• Chapter 4: "Enemies Within": Pertsov and the NKVD in Kharkov and Odessa- Vadym Zolotar'ov


• Chapter 5: "Under the Dictation of Fleishman": The NKVD in Skvira- Lynne Viola


• Chapter 6: "The Situation at the Time": The NKVD in Zhitomir- Serhii Kokin


• Chapter 7: "This is How You Interrogate and Secure Testimony": Kocherginskii and the Northern Donetsk Railway NKVD- Jeffrey J. Rossman


• Index

About the author

Lynne Viola is University Professor of History at the University of Toronto. Her books include The Unknown Gulag and Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial (OUP, 2017) and The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin's Special Settlements (OUP, 2007).

Marc Junge is Senior Researcher of Eastern European History at the University of Erlangen. His publications include Stalin's Mass Repression and the Cold War Paradigm and Nation-Building by Terror in Soviet Georgia.

Product details

• Authors: Lynne (University Professor of History Viola
• Assisted by: Marc-Stephan Junge (Editor), Marc-Stephan (Senior Researcher of Eastern European History Junge (Editor), Lynne Viola (Editor), Lynne (University Professor of History Viola (Editor), Viola Lynne (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2022
• EAN: 9780197647547
• ISBN: 978-0-19-764754-7
• No. of pages: 236
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, LAW / Legal History, Geopolitics, Legal History