Agents of Terror: Ordinary Men and Extraordinary Violence in Stalin's Secret Police
Autor Alexander Vatlin Editat de Seth Bernstein Cuvânt înainte de Oleg Khlevniuken Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 iul 2018
During Stalin's Great Terror, more than a million Soviet citizens were arrested or killed for political crimes they did not commit. Who carried out these purges, and what motivated them? Alexander Vatlin opens up the world of the Soviet perpetrators using detailed evidence from one Moscow suburb. Spurred by ambition or fear, local secret police rushed to fulfill quotas for arresting "enemies of the people"—even when it meant fabricating evidence. Vatlin confronts head-on issues of historical agency and moral responsibility in Stalin-era crimes.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780299310844
ISBN-10: 0299310841
Pagini: 206
Ilustrații: 21 b-w illus.
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN-10: 0299310841
Pagini: 206
Ilustrații: 21 b-w illus.
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția University of Wisconsin Press
Recenzii
"Groundbreaking. In the first detailed description of Stalin's mass terror, Vatlin unfolds the day-to-day working of the Soviet political police who carried out orders to select, arrest, interrogate, and often murder their fellow citizens. An absorbing, heartrending account."—David Shearer, author of Policing Stalin's Socialism —David Shearer, author of Policing Stalin's Socialism
"Only a handful of case studies consider how the purges took place at the grassroots level. One can only hope that Agents of Terror will inspire more research on the purges' perpetrators and victims as well as on the broader sociology of this brutal period." —David Brandenberger, author of Propaganda State in Crisis
"A sensationally significant, detailed microhistory, based on the criminal files of NKVD agents who were arrested as scapegoats at the end of the terror—what some historians have called the purge of the purgers." —Lynne Viola, author of The Unknown Gulag
Notă biografică
Alexander Vatlin is a professor of history at Moscow State University. The author of many works in Russian, he is the editor of Piggy Foxy and the Sword of Revolution: Bolshevik Self Portraits. Seth Bernstein is an assistant professor of history at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow.
Cuprins
List of Illustrations
Foreword by Oleg Khlevniuk
Preface to the English-Language Edition
Introduction to the English-Language Edition by Seth Bernstein
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Why Kuntsevo? Setting the Stage
Part I. Executors of Terror
Part II. Patterns of Victimization
Epilogue: New Kuntsevo Forgets the Past
Notes
Index
Foreword by Oleg Khlevniuk
Preface to the English-Language Edition
Introduction to the English-Language Edition by Seth Bernstein
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Why Kuntsevo? Setting the Stage
Part I. Executors of Terror
Part II. Patterns of Victimization
Epilogue: New Kuntsevo Forgets the Past
Notes
Index
Descriere
Reveals the brutal acts of local functionaries in Stalin's Soviet Union that added up to more than a million citizen deaths in 1937–38. Spurred by ambition or fear, local secret police filled quotas for arresting "enemies of the people"—even when it meant fabricating evidence.