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Author Bernstein, Seth.

Title Agents of Terror.

Publication Info. Madison, Wisconsin : University of Wisconsin Press, 2016.

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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary In the Great Terror of 1937 38 more than a million Soviet citizens were arrested or killed for political crimes they didn t commit. What kind of people carried out this violent purge, and what motivated them? This book opens up the world of the Soviet perpetrator for the first time. Focusing on Kuntsevo, the Moscow suburb where Stalin had a dacha, Alexander Vatlin shows how Stalinism rewarded local officials for inventing enemies. Agents of Terror reveals stunning, detailed evidence from archives available for a limited time in the 1990s. Going beyond the central figures of the terror, Vatlin takes readers into the offices and interrogation rooms of secret police at the district level. Spurred at times by ambition, and at times by fear for their own lives, agents rushed to fulfill quotas for arresting enemies of the people even when it meant fabricating the evidence. Vatlin pulls back the curtain on a Kafkaesque system, forcing readers to reassess notions of historical agency and moral responsibility in Stalin-era crimes.
Subject Soviet Union. Narodnyĭ komissariat vnutrennikh del -- History.
Political persecution -- Russia (Federation) -- Kunt︠s︡evskiĭ raĭon -- History.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Political persecution. (OCoLC)fst01069448
Soviet Union. Narodnyĭ komissariat vnutrennikh del. (OCoLC)fst00586350
Russia (Federation) -- Kunt︠s︡evskiĭ raĭon. (OCoLC)fst01304584
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Print version: Bernstein, Seth. Agents of Terror. Madison, Wisconsin : University of Wisconsin Press, 2016 9780299310806 0299310809 (DLC) 2016012947 (OCoLC)946579846
ISBN 9780299310837 (ebk)
0299310833 (ebk)
0299310809
9780299310806
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