Description
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewGroundbreaking. 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 terrorwhat some historians have called the purge of the purgers."" - Lynne Viola
Table of ContentsList 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
