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• "The Party Will Demand a Full Reckoning" : Korablev and the Vinnitsa NKVD / Valeriy Vasylyev and Roman Podkur
• "The Party Makes Mistakes, the NKVD-Never" : The NKVD in Odessa / Andrei Savin and Aleksei Tepliakov
• "A Sacrificial Offering" : Karamyshev and the Nikolaev NKVD / Marc Junge
• "Enemies Within" : Pertsov and the NKVD in Kharkov and Odessa / Vadym Zolotar'ov
• "Under the Dictation of Fleishman" : The NKVD in Skvira / Lynne Viola
• "The Situation at the Time" : The NKVD in Zhitomir / Serhii Kokin
• "This is How You Interrogate and Secure Testimony" : Kocherginskii and the Northern Donetsk Railway NKVD / Jeffrey J. Rossman

"Laboratories of Terror explores the final chapter of Stalin's Great Terror. On November 1938, the Communist Party Central Committee and the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR issued a directive halting mass operations in repression. This directive served not only to end the mass operations, but led to the release of large numbers of mainly Communist purge victims whose cases remained incomplete. At the same time, it resulted in a "purge of the purgers," resulting in the scapegoating and arrests of hundreds of NKVD operatives who had carried out the Great Terror at regional and local levels. This episode in the Great Terror remained hidden from view for decades due to the largely closed archives of the Soviet security police. The opening of the Ukrainian security police archives in the 2010s allowed historians for the first time to begin to excavate this chapter in the history of the Great Terror. This collection of essays illuminates the world of the NKVD perpetrator and the mechanics and logistics of the terror at the local level through an examination of the criminal files of a series of mid-level NKVD operatives arrested at the end of the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine. It reveals the complex relations between center and periphery, illustrating both Stalin's central role in the architecture of the terror and NKVD perpetrators' agency in implementing the terror"-- Provided by publisher

• "The Party Will Demand a Full Reckoning": Korablev and the
• Vinnitsa NKVD / Valeriy Vasylyev and Roman Podkur
• "The Party Makes Mistakes, the NKVD
• Never": The NKVD in Odessa / Andrei Savin and Aleksei Tepliakov
• "A Sacrificial Offering": Karamyshev and the Nikolaev NKVD / Marc Junge
• Vadym Zolotar'ov, "Enemies Within": Pertsov and the NKVD in
• Kharkov and Odessa / Vadym Zolotar'ov
• "Under the Dictation of Fleishman": The NKVD in Skvira / Lynne Viola
• "The Situation at the Time": The NKVD in Zhitomir / Serhii Kokin
• "This is How You Interrogate and Secure Testimony": Kocherginskii and the Northern Donetsk Railway NKVD / Jeffrey J. Rossman

Laboratories of Terror explores the final chapter of Stalin's Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine. When the Communist Party Central Committee and the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR halted mass operations in repression in November 1938, large numbers of mainly Communist purge victims whose cases remained incomplete were released. At the same time, hundreds of NKVD operatives who had carried out the Great Terror were scapegoated and arrested. Drawing on materials from the largely closed archives of the Soviet security police, this collection of essays by an international team of researchers illuminates the previously opaque world of the NKVD perpetrator. It uncovers the mechanics and logistics of the terror at the local level by examining the criminal files of a series of mid-level NKVD operatives from across Ukraine. The result offers new perspectives on both Stalin's central role in the architecture of the terror and NKVD perpetrators' agency in implementing one of the most horrific episodes of twentieth-century mass violence.
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• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Introduction: The Paradox of Power
• PART I. PREPARING FOR WAR
• 1. Mobilization and Repression at the Centre
• 2. Mobilization and Purges on the Peripheries
• PART II. FIGHTING THE WAR
• 3. Forging the Sinews of War
• 4. The Scientific and Technical Intelligentsia
• 5. On the Cultural Front
• PART III. WINNING THE PEACE
• 6. A Pyrrhic Victory?
• Epilogue: Remembering the War
• Chronology
• Glossary
• Abbreviations
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

An authoritative account of Stalin as a wartime leader-showing how his paradoxical policies of mass mobilization and repression affected all aspects of Soviet society The Second World War was the defining moment in the history of the Soviet Union. With Stalin at the helm, it emerged victorious at a huge economic and human cost. But even before the fighting had ended, Stalin began to turn against the architects of success. In this original and comprehensive study, Alfred J. Rieber examines Stalin as a wartime leader, arguing that his policies were profoundly paradoxical. In preparation for the war, Stalin mobilized the whole of Soviet society in pursuit of his military goals and intensified the centralization of his power. Yet at the same time, his use of terror weakened the forces vital to the defense of the country. In his efforts to rebuild the country after the devastating losses and destruction, he suppressed groups that had contributed immeasurably to victory. His steady, ruthless leadership cultivated a legacy that was to burden the Soviet Union and Russia to the present day.
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An authoritative account of Stalin as a wartime leader-showing how his paradoxical policies of mass mobilization and repression affected all aspects of Soviet society The Second World War was the defining moment in the history of the Soviet Union. With Stalin at the helm, it emerged victorious at a huge economic and human cost. But even before the fighting had ended, Stalin began to turn against the architects of success. In this original and comprehensive study, Alfred J. Rieber examines Stalin as a wartime leader, arguing that his policies were profoundly paradoxical. In preparation for the war, Stalin mobilized the whole of Soviet society in pursuit of his military goals and intensified the centralization of his power. Yet at the same time, his use of terror weakened the forces vital to the defense of the country. In his efforts to rebuild the country after the devastating losses and destruction, he suppressed groups that had contributed immeasurably to victory. His steady, ruthless leadership cultivated a legacy that was to burden the Soviet Union and Russia to the present day.
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• List of Figures Preface Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Turkey in the Targets of Soviet Pressure: Eastern Provinces and Straits
• 3 Stalin's Expansionist Strategy in Iranian Azerbaijan: Between Oil and Territories
• 4 Iranian Azerbaijan: The First Test Site of the Cold War
• 5 Stalin's Adventure in Eastern Turkestan: Game With China
• 6 Conclusion Bibliography Index.
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Immediately after the Allied WW2 victory in Europe, claims were made by the Soviet Union over the eastern regions of Turkey, to secure direct control over the Bosporus, Dardanelles, and Turkish Straits. The detailed study of the international components of these events, featuring the veiled complexities of Stalin's anti-Turkish diplomacy, provides a key to understanding crucial aspects of these Soviet territorial claims. Iranian Azerbaijan became another hotspot of post-war confrontation between the western Allies and the USSR: Soviet policy towards Iran manifested in the desire to access their oil resources. A further direction emerging within Soviet post-war strategy was the Kurdish issue in the Near and Middle East. At the conjunction of Turkish and Iranian events, Soviet secret service bodies and diplomatic institutions exploited their strengths and toyed with Kurdish minorities in the region. Their decisions placed the bordering regions of China, Turkey, and Iran squarely in the shadowy reaches of Moscow's policy. This research uses newly discovered archive material to illustrate the underlying intrigue behind Soviet ambition and intimately tracks how the Soviet Union was defeated in the first Cold War confrontation over its southern borders. It also links events of this period with the critical issue of Uyghur assimilation, and further contemporary developments highlighting Putin's policies, making it invaluable for both academic and general readers.
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• List of Illustrations List of Maps List of Tables and Charts Acknowledgements Introduction: Stalinism at War, 1937-49
• 1. Preparing for War
• 2. The War begins in the East, 1937-39
• 3. War in the West, 1939-40
• 4. Armageddon, 1941-42
• 5. Recovery, 1941-42
• 6. Triumph, 1943-45
• 7. War of Ideologies
• 8. The War after the War, 1944-49
• 9. Impact and Aftermath Appendix: Maps Notes Index.
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Stalinism at War tells the epic story of the Soviet Union in World War Two. Starting with Soviet involvement in the war in Asia and ending with a bloody counter-insurgency in the borderlands of Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltics, the Soviet Union's war was both considerably longer and more all-encompassing than is sometimes appreciated. Here, acclaimed scholar Mark Edele explores the complex experiences of both ordinary and extraordinary citizens - Russians and Koreans, Ukrainians and Jews, Lithuanians and Georgians, men and women, loyal Stalinists and critics of his regime - to reveal how the Soviet Union and leadership of a ruthless dictator propelled Allied victory over Germany and Japan. In doing so, Edele weaves together material on the society and culture of the wartime years with high-level politics and unites the military, economic and political history of the Soviet Union with broader popular histories from below. The result is an engaging, intelligent and authoritative account of the Soviet Union from 1937 to 1949.
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This compelling book on Hitler and Stalin - the culmination of thirty years' work - examines the two tyrants during the Second World War, when Germany and the Soviet Union fought the biggest and bloodiest war in history. Yet despite the fact they were bitter opponents, Laurence Rees shows that Hitler and Stalin were, to a large extent, different sides of the same coin. Hitler's charismatic leadership may contrast with Stalin's regimented rule by fear; and his intransigence later in the war may contrast with Stalin's change in behaviour in response to events. But at a macro level, both were prepared to create undreamt of suffering, destroy individual liberty and twist facts in order to build the Utopia they wanted, and while Hitler's creation of the Holocaust remains a singular crime, Rees shows why we must not forget that Stalin committed a series of atrocities at the same time. Using previously unpublished, startling eyewitness testimony from soldiers of the Red Army and Wehrmacht, civilians who suffered during the conflict, and those who knew both men personally, bestselling historian Laurence Rees - probably the only person alive who has met Germans who worked for Hitler and Russians who worked for Stalin - challenges long-held popular misconceptions about two of the most important figures in history. This is a masterwork from one of our finest historians.
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