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- Agents of Terror: Ordinary Men and Extraordinary Violence in Stalin's Secret Police
- Book
- 2016
- Published by: University of Wisconsin Press
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summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-iv
- List of Illustrations
- pp. vii-viii
- Preface to the English-Language Edition
- pp. xvii-xviii
- Introduction to the English-Language Edition
- pp. xix-xxxii
- List of Abbreviations
- pp. xxxiii-xxxiv
- Part I. Executors of Terror
- pp. 11-78
- Part II. Patterns of Victimization
- pp. 79-140
- Epilogue. New Kuntsevo Forgets the Past
- pp. 141-144
Additional Information
ISBN
9780299310837
Related ISBN(s)
9780299310806, 9780299310844
MARC Record
OCLC
958484367
Pages
205
Launched on MUSE
2016-09-18
Language
English
Open Access
No
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