Stalin’s Terror

BARRY MCLOUGHLIN is Dozent at the Institute of Contemporary History, Vienna University. He has co-authored two volumes on the history of Austrian political refugees in the Soviet Union and has written articles on the history of the Comintern and its schools. He also scripted and co-produced for Irish state television the documentary Among Wolves about the Gulag victim Patrick Breslin. KEVIN MCDERMOTT is Senior Lecturer in Political History at Sheffield Hallam University. He is author of The Czech Red Unions, 1918-1929, co-author of The Comintern: A History of International Communism from Lenin to Stalin and co-editor of Politics and Society under the Bolsheviks.

'A fascinating and wide-ranging collection of essays on the Great Terror. It illustrates well the new archive-based research being undertaken. It significantly extends our knowledge and will be a boon to students and scholars.' - Professor E.A. Rees, EUI, Florence 'Perhaps the greatest untold story of Soviet history...the book is likely to change the way we think about the Great Terror and Stalin's Dictatorship.' - James Harris, Leeds University 'These excellent contributions not only increase our understanding of the events as a whole; they also provide new details that will surprise even some specialists...[Stalin's Terror] provides fresh perspectives and important new factual evidence on one of the most barbaric episodes of the twentieth century, and will benefit anyone interested in modern Russian or European history.' - J. Arch Getty, University of California 'This is an extremely interesting and informative, but at the same time chilling collection of essays detailing the different stages and types of repression in the Soviet Union during the 1930s...The material presented in this collection, which provides fascinating glimpses into the psychology of interrogation and the tragic fate of individuals alongside meticulous analysis of the facts and figures of repression is both comprehensive and ground-breaking in the new perspective it provides on this catastrophic period of Soviet history.' - Elizabeth Warner, Emerita Professor of Russian, University of Durham, Mortality

• List of Tables Preface and Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors List of Archives and Archival Terms Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations Rethinking Stalinist Terror; B.McLoughlin & K.McDermott PART I: THE POLITICS OF REPRESSION Party and NKVD: Power Relationships in the Years of the Great Terror; O.Khlevniuk Ezhov's Scenario for the Great Terror and the Falsified Record of the Third Moscow Show Trial; W.Hedeler Dimitrov, the Comintern and Stalinist Repression; F.Firsov PART II: THE POLICE AND MASS REPRESSION Social Disorder, Mass Repression and the NKVD During the 1930s; D.Shearer Mass Operations of the NKVD, 1937-38: A Survey; B.McLoughlin The 'Polish' Operation of the NKVD, 1937-38; N.Petrov & A.Roginskii PART III: VICTIM STUDIES Foreign Communists and the Mechanisms of Soviet Cadre Formation in the USSE; B.Unfried Stalinist Terror in the Moscow District of Kuntsevo, 1937-38; A.Vatlin & N.Musienko The Fictitious 'Hitler-Jugend' Conspiracy of the Moscow NKVD; H.Schafranek & N.Musienko Terror Against Foreign Workers in the Moscow Elektrozavod Plant, 1937-38; S.Zhuravlev Select Bibliography Index