Stalin’s Terror Revisited

MELANIE ILIC is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Gloucestershire UK, and Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham UK. She is author of Women Workers in the Soviet Interwar Economy (Palgrave Macmillan, 1999), editor of Women in the Stalin Era (Palgrave Macmillan, 2001), and co-editor (with S. E. Reid and L. Atwood) of Women in the Khrushchev Era (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).

'Ili? has produced an interesting volume based on important and original research, with a welcome turn to regional history. The collection re-opens with a welcome turn to regional history. The collection re-opens debate on significant topics, reminding us that we still have a long way to go in our attempts to understand the scope and nature of Stalin's terror.' - Miriam Dobson, Slavonic& East European Review

• Introduction; M.Ilic The Soviet Economy and the Launching of the Great Terror; R.W.Davies Economic Officials in the Great Terror, 1936-38; O.Khlevnyuk Soviet Trade Unions and the Great Terror; J.Jo The Soviet Penal System and the Great Terror; C.Joyce The Forgotten Five Per Cent: Women, Political Repression and the Purges; M.Ilic The Great Terror in Ukraine, 1936-38; V.Vasiliev Remembering the Victims of Political Repression: the Purges in Mordoviya; M.Ilic and C.Joyce Recycled Victims: Repression in the Komi Republic; C.Joyce Index Bibliography