Overview

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.

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Author:   Lynne Viola (University Professor of History, University Professor of History, University of Toronto) ,  Marc-Stephan Junge (Senior Researcher of Eastern European History, Senior Researcher of Eastern European History, University of Erlangen)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.467kg
ISBN:  

9780197647547

ISBN 10:   0197647545
Pages:   236
Publication Date:   08 December 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table 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"

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Laboratories of Terror...well worth reading, and enables us to observe how terror unfolded in very specific conditions. * The Russian Review *

Author Information

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.

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