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Stalin’s Terror

High Politics and Mass Repression in the Soviet Union

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Editors:
  1. Barry McLoughlin

    1. Vienna University, Austria

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  2. Kevin McDermott

    1. Sheffield Hallam University, UK

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Rethinking Stalinist Terror

    1. Rethinking Stalinist Terror

      • Barry McLoughlin, Kevin McDermott
      Pages 1-18

  4. The Police and Mass Repression

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83
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    2. Social Disorder, Mass Repression and the NKVD during the 1930s

      • David Shearer
      Pages 85-117

    3. Mass Operations of the NKVD, 1937–8: A Survey

      • Barry McLoughlin
      Pages 118-152

    4. The “Polish Operation” of the NKVD, 1937–8

      • Nikita Petrov, Arsenii Roginskii
      Pages 153-172

  5. Victim Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 173-173
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    2. Foreign Communists and the Mechanisms of Soviet Cadre Formation in the USSR

      • Berthold Unfried
      Pages 175-193

    3. Stalinist Terror in the Moscow District of Kuntsevo, 1937–8

      • Aleksandr Vatlin, Natalia Musienko
      Pages 194-207

    4. The Fictitious “Hitler-Jugend” Conspiracy of the Moscow NKVD

      • Hans Schafranek, Natalia Musienko
      Pages 208-224

    5. Terror against Foreign Workers in the Moscow Elektrozavod Plant, 1937–8

      • Sergei Zhuravlev
      Pages 225-240

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 241-256
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About this book

The British, Irish, Russian, American, German and Austrian contributors examine the intricate nature of the mass repression unleashed by the Stalinist leader of the USSR during 1937-38. The first part of the collection deals with annihilation policies against the Soviet elite and the Communist International. The second section of the volume looks at mass operations of the secret police (NKVD) against social outcasts, Poles and other 'hostile' ethnic groups. The final section comprises micro-studies about targeted victim groups among the general population.

Reviews

'A fascinating and wide-ranging collection of essays on the Great Terror. It illustrates well the new archive-based research being undertaken. It significantly extends our knowledge and will be a boon to students and scholars.' - Professor E.A. Rees, EUI, Florence

'Perhaps the greatest untold story of Soviet history...the book is likely to change the way we think about the Great Terror and Stalin's Dictatorship.' - James Harris, Leeds University

'These excellent contributions not only increase our understanding of the events as a whole; they also provide new details that will surprise even some specialists...[Stalin's Terror] provides fresh perspectives and important new factual evidence on one of the most barbaric episodes of the twentieth century, and will benefit anyone interested in modern Russian or European history.' - J. Arch Getty, University of California

'This is an extremely interesting and informative, but at the same time chilling collection of essays detailing the different stages and types of repression in the Soviet Union during the 1930s...The material presented in this collection, which provides fascinating glimpses into the psychology of interrogation and the tragic fate of individuals alongside meticulous analysis of the facts and figures of repression is both comprehensive and ground-breaking in the new perspective it provides on this catastrophic period of Soviet history.' - Elizabeth Warner, Emerita Professor of Russian, University of Durham, Mortality

Editors and Affiliations

  • Vienna University, Austria

    Barry McLoughlin

  • Sheffield Hallam University, UK

    Kevin McDermott

About the editors

FRIDRIKH FIRSOV Researcher, History of the Comintern WLADISLAW HEDELER Researcher, History of the Karaganda Gulag Complex OLEG KHLEVNIUK Department of Public Administration, Moscow State University, Russia NATALIA MUSIENKO Lecturer, German Language NIKITA PETROV Vice-Chairman, Board of Memorial, the most prominent Russian organization dedicated to uncovering the crimes of Soviet Communism ARSENII ROGINSKII Chairman, Board of Memorial HANS SCHAFRANEK Freelance Historian, Vienna DAVID SHEARER Associate Professor of History, University of Delaware, USA BERTHOLD UNFRIED Lecturer, Cultural Studies, Vienna University ALEKSANDR VATLIN Senior Lecturer, Department of Modern History, Moscow's Lomonosov University, Russia SERGEI ZHURAVLEV Senior Researcher, Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Stalin’s Terror

  • Book Subtitle: High Politics and Mass Repression in the Soviet Union

  • Editors: Barry McLoughlin, Kevin McDermott

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230523937

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2003

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-0119-4Published: 11 December 2002

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-3903-6Published: 11 December 2002

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-52393-7Published: 11 December 2002

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 255

  • Topics: Russian, Soviet, and East European History, Asian History, Modern History, European History

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