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Groundbreaking. In the first detailed description of Stalin's mass terror, Vatlin unfolds the day-to-day working of the Soviet political police who carried out orders to select, arrest, interrogate, and often murder their fellow citizens. An absorbing, heartrending account."" - David Shearer, author of Policing Stalin's Socialism

""A sensationally significant, detailed microhistory of Stalin's Great Terror, based on the criminal files of NKVD agents who were arrested as scapegoats at the end of the terror—what some historians have called the purge of the purgers."" - Lynne Viola

Table of Contents
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

Agents of Terror Ordinary Men and Extraordinary

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      Publisher: MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 7/30/2018 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780299310844, 978-0299310844
      ISBN10: 0299310841
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      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      Groundbreaking. In the first detailed description of Stalin's mass terror, Vatlin unfolds the day-to-day working of the Soviet political police who carried out orders to select, arrest, interrogate, and often murder their fellow citizens. An absorbing, heartrending account."" - David Shearer, author of Policing Stalin's Socialism

      ""A sensationally significant, detailed microhistory of Stalin's Great Terror, based on the criminal files of NKVD agents who were arrested as scapegoats at the end of the terror—what some historians have called the purge of the purgers."" - Lynne Viola

      Table of Contents
      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

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