LEADER 04331cam a2200517 i 4500001 262150 005 20180326105153.0 008 180228s2017 nyuabf b 001 0 eng 010 2017006386 035 (OCoLC)ocn973733369 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dOCLCO |dOCLCQ |dBDX |dYDX |dBTCTA |dOCLCF |dOCLCQ |dTOH |dYDX |dOCLCO |dGZL |dVMI |dNZAUC |dDLC |dOCLCQ |dLHM 020 9780190674168 |q(hardcover ; |qalkaline paper) 020 0190674164 |q(hardcover ; |qalkaline paper) 020 |z9780190674175 |q(Updf) 020 |z9780199674182 |q(Epub) 042 pcc 043 e-un---e-ur--- 050 00 KKY40.P64 |bV56 2017 049 LHMA 100 1 Viola, Lynne, |eauthor. 245 10 Stalinist perpetrators on trial : |bscenes from the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine / |cLynne Viola. 264 1 New York, NY : |bOxford University Press, |c2017. 300 xviii, 268 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : |billustrations, map ; |c25 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 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. 505 0 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. 650 0 Trials (Political crimes and offenses) |zUkraine. 650 0 Trials (Political crimes and offenses) |zSoviet Union. 650 0 Political purges |zSoviet Union. 650 0 Political purges |zUkraine. 650 0 Political persecution |zUkraine. 651 0 Ukraine |xHistory |y1921-1944. 651 0 Soviet Union |xHistory |y1925-1953. 650 7 Political persecution. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01069448 650 7 Political purges. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01069672 650 7 Trials (Political crimes and offenses) |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01156388 651 7 Soviet Union. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01210281 651 7 Ukraine. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01211738 648 7 1921-1953 |2fast 655 7 History. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 |iOnline version:Viola, Lynne. |tStalinist perpetrators on trial. |dNew York : Oxford University Press, 2017 |z9780190674175 |w(DLC) 2017008661 852 0 |bstacks |hKKY40.P64 |iV56 2017 |tc. 1 852 0 |bscstacks |hKKY40.P64 |iV56 2017 |tc. 2