Stalinist terror : new perspectives / edited by J. Arch Getty and Roberta T. Manning.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Narkom Ezhov / Boris A. Starkov -- The politics of repression revisited / J. Arch Getty -- The second coming : class enemies in the Soviet countryside, 1927-1935 / Lynne Viola -- The omnipresent conspiracy : on Soviet imagery of politics and social relations in the 1930s / Gábor T. Rittersporn -- The Soviet economic crisis of 1936-1940 and the great purges / Roberta T. Manning -- The Stakhanovite movement : the background to the Great Terror in the factories, 1935-1938 / Robert Thurston -- The Great Terror on the local level : purges in Moscow factories, 1936-1938 / David L. Hoffman -- The Great Purges in a rural district : Belyi Raion revisited / Roberta T. Manning -- The Red Army and the Great Purges / Roger R. Reese -- Stalinist terror in the Donbas : a note / Hiroaki Kuromiya.

Patterns of repression among the Soviet elite in the late 1930s : a biographical approach / J. Arch Getty and William Chase -- The impact of the Great Purges on Soviet elites : a case study from Moscow and Leningrad telephone directories of the 1930s / Sheila Fitzpatrick -- Victims of Stalinism : how many? / Alec Nove -- More light on the scale of repression and excess mortality in the Soviet Union in the 1930s / Stephen G. Wheatcroft.