Laboratories of Terror explores the final chapter of Stalin's Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine. Making use of previously classified archival documents from the newly opened former KGB archives of Ukraine, this collection of essays is the first English-language study of mid-level NKVD (KGB) operatives. It illuminates the previously opaque world of the Soviet perpetrator and the mechanics and logistics of the Great Terror at the local level.
Laboratories of Terror explores the final chapter of Stalin's Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine. Making use of previously classified archival documents from the newly opened former KGB archives of Ukraine, this collection of essays is the first English-language study of mid-level NKVD (KGB) operatives. It illuminates the previously opaque world of the Soviet perpetrator and the mechanics and logistics of the Great Terror at the local level.
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.
The first work in English to be based on case files of interrogations and trials of the secret police who carried out state violence~Builds the biographies of the lower and mid-rank men who enacted the Great Terror~Chilling dissection of the late Great Terror, including provincial towns and cities where arrests, beatings, and torture were carried out
Lynne Viola is Professor of History at the University of Toronto. She is the author of The Best Sons of the Fatherland and Peasant Rebels under Stalin and coeditor of The War against the Peasantry.
