Description
Book SynopsisThis volume examines Stalinist terror in Eastern Europe in the period 1940 to 1956. It covers instances of elite purges from the party and state hierarchy, including the infamous show trials staged against leading communists and the impact such practices had on wartime and post-war societies in the region. -- .
Trade Review"The collected volume is a timely publication that fills in a significant gap in the English-language historiography of the establishment of Stalinist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe after World War Two. It may come as a surprise that this book is actually the first serious scholarly attempt to address the topic of Stalinist repressions from a comparative perspective, bringing together the findings of historians from the respective countries since the archival revolutions of the early 1990s."
(Balázs Apor: Slavonic and East European Review,vol. 92, no. 1, January 2014)
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Table of ContentsList of abbreviations and glossary of terms
List of archives and archival abbreviations
Notes on contributors
1. Stalinist terror in Eastern Europe: Problems, perspectives and interpretations - Kevin McDermott and Matthew Stibbe
2. Soviet in form, local in content: Elite repression and mass terror in the Baltic States, 1940–53 - Aldis Purs
3. Stalinist terror in Soviet Moldavia, 1940–53 - Igor Casu
4. East Germany, 1945–53: Stalinist repression and internal Party purges - Matthew Stibbe
5. Stalinism in Poland, 1944–56 - Lukasz Kaminski
6. Stalinist terror in Czechoslovakia: Origins, processes, responses - Kevin McDermott
7. Stalinist terror in Hungary, 1945-56 - László Borhi
8. Political purges and mass repression in Romania, 1948–55 - Dennis Deletant
9. Stalinist and anti-Stalinist repression in Yugoslavia, 1944–53 - Jerca Vodušek Staric
10. Stalinist terror in Bulgaria, 1944–56 - Jordan Baev
11. Purge and counter-purge in Stalinist Albania, 1944–56 - Robert C. Austin
List of major works cited
Index
