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Agents of Terror

Ordinary Men and Extraordinary Violence in Stalin's Secret Police
TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
206 Seiten
Englisch
University of Wisconsin Presserschienen am30.07.2018
In the Great Terror of 193738 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.mehr

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KlappentextIn the Great Terror of 193738 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.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-0-299-31084-4
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
FormatTrade Paperback (USA)
Erscheinungsjahr2018
Erscheinungsdatum30.07.2018
Seiten206 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 152 mm, Höhe 229 mm, Dicke 11 mm
Gewicht281 g
Artikel-Nr.45218577
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GenreGeschichte/Politik

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
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               Indexmehr

Autor

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.