Laboratories of Terror
The Final Act of Stalin's Great Purge in Soviet Ukraine
Published on 25. November 2022
241 pages
978-0-19-764756-1 (ISBN)
Description
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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The Final Act of Stalin's Great Purge in Soviet Ukraine
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Persons
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.
Content
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
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