Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial
Scenes from the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine. Winner of the Thomas Henry Pentland Molson Prize Winner of the American Association for Ukrainian Studies' annual Book Prize
(Sprache: Englisch)
An inside account of the trials and punishments of the Soviet secret police officers who carried out the Great Terror, this book uses the criminal files from Ukraine to take readers inside the operations of the interrogation rooms and execution chambers where Stalin's regime enacted state violence.
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An inside account of the trials and punishments of the Soviet secret police officers who carried out the Great Terror, this book uses the criminal files from Ukraine to take readers inside the operations of the interrogation rooms and execution chambers where Stalin's regime enacted state violence.
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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 Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del (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, they 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, provides a glimpse behind the curtains of the terror. It depicts how the terror was implemented, 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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial “
- Chronology
- A Note on Usage
- Glossary
- Introduction
- Ch 1: The Incomplete Civil War and the Great Terror
- Ch 2: A Taste for Terror
- Ch 3: Vania the Terrible
- Ch 4: Under the Dictation of Fleishman
- Ch 5: What Happened in Uman?
- Ch 6: An Excursion to Zaporozh'e
- Ch 7: Upsenskii's Stooge
- Postscript
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Autoren-Porträt von Lynne Viola
Lynne Viola is Professor of History at the University of Toronto. She is the author of The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin's Special Settlements, Peasant Rebels Under Stalin, The Best Sons of the Fatherland, co-editor of Russian Peasant Women, and editor/co-editor of six other books.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Lynne Viola
- 2018, 304 Seiten, Maße: 16,4 x 23,7 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0190674164
- ISBN-13: 9780190674168
- Erscheinungsdatum: 17.04.2018
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Much detail on how NKVD leaders and rank-and-file interrogators behaved during the height of the terror appears here for the first time, and Viola has expanded our knowledge of how the mass repressions worked. Robert W. Thurston, Journal of Modern History
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