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Stalinist perpetrators on trial : scenes from the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine / Lynne Viola.

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    Between the summer of 1937 and November 1938, the Stalinist regime arrested over 1.5 million people for "counterrevolutionary" and "anti-Soviet" activity and either summarily executed or exiled them to the Gulag. While we now know a great deal about the experience of victims of the Great Terror, we know almost nothing about the lower- and middle-level NKVD, or secret police, cadres who carried out Stalin's murderous policies. Unlike the postwar, public trials of Nazi war criminals, NKVD operatives were tried secretly. And what exactly happened in those courtrooms was unknown until now. In what has been dubbed "the purge of the purgers," almost one thousand NKVD officers were prosecuted by Soviet military courts. Scapegoated for violating Soviet law, there were charged with multiple counts of fabrication of evidence, falsification of interrogation protocols, use of torture to secure "confessions," and murder during pre-trial detention of "suspects"--And many were sentenced to execution themselves. The documentation generated by these trials, including verbatim interrogation records and written confessions signed by perpetrators; testimony by victims, witnesses, and experts; and transcripts of court sessions, provide a glimpse behind the curtains of the terror. It depicts how the terror was implements, what happened, and who was responsible, demonstrating that orders from above worked in conjunction with a series of situational factors to shape the contours of state violence. 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. -- Inside jacket flap.
    Format
    Book
    Author/Creator
    Viola, Lynne, author.
    Published
    New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017
    Locale
    Ukraine
    Soviet Union
    Contents
    Chronology
    A note on usage
    Glossary
    Introduction
    1. The incomplete civil war and the Great terror
    2. A taste for terror
    3. Vania the Terrible
    4. Under the dictation of Fleishman
    5. What happened in Uman?
    6. An excursion to Zaporozh'e
    7. Uspenskii's stooge
    Postscript
    Conclusion.
    Notes
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Chronology -- A note on usage -- Glossary -- Introduction -- 1. The incomplete civil war and the Great terror -- 2. A taste for terror -- 3. Vania the Terrible -- 4. Under the dictation of Fleishman -- 5. What happened in Uman? -- 6. An excursion to Zaporozh'e -- 7. Uspenskii's stooge -- Postscript -- Conclusion.

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    Language
    English
    ISBN
    9780190674168
    0190674164
    Physical Description
    xviii, 268 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

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