Agents of Terror: Ordinary Men and Extraordinary Violence in Stalin's Secret Police

ISBN-13: 9780299310844 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 206 str.

Alexander Vatlin; Seth Bernstein; Oleg Khlevniuk

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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