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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
• 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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• Introduction
• 1. Victory over the Revolution: A Transformed War
• 2. From Metaphor to Metonymy: The Political Tropology of Historicism
• 3. Three Resolutions about Beauty: Ideological Conscientiousness as Device
• 4. Meta-Stalinism: The Dialectics of Party-Mindedness and the Party-Mindedness of Dialectics
• 5. Realästhetik: Populism Instead of Music
• 6. Gesamtwissenschaftswerk: Romantic Naturalism and Life in Its Revolutionary Development
• 7. The Power of Grammar and the Grammar of Power: Linguistic Realism
• 8. Socialist Surrealism: Representing Life in the Forms of Life Itself
• 9. Gesamtkriegswerk: Cold War Hall of Mirrors in the Ministry of Truth
• Notes
• Works Cited
• Index

How the last years of Stalin's rule led to the formation ofan imperial Soviet consciousness In this nuanced historical analysis of late Stalinism organized chronologically around the main events of the period-beginning with Victory in May 1945 and concluding with the death of Stalin in March 1953-Evgeny Dobrenko analyzes key cultural texts to trace the emergence of an imperial Soviet consciousness that, he argues, still defines the political and cultural profile of modern Russia.
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• Tom 1. Pobeda nad revoli͡ut͡seĭ : preobrazhennai͡a voĭna ; Allegorii͡a--sinekdokha--metamorfoza : politicheskai͡a tropologii͡a istorizma ; Postanovlenii͡a o prekrasnom : ideĭnostʹ kak priem ; Metastalinizm : dialektika partiĭnosti i partiĭnostʹ dialektiki ; Realästhetik, narodnostʹ vmesto muzyki (oratorii͡a v pi͡ati chasti͡akh s prologom i ėpilogom) ; Gesamtwissenschaftswerk : romaticheskiĭ naturalizm i zhiznʹ v ee revoli͡ut͡sionnom razvitii
• Tom 2. Lingvisticheskiĭ realizm : vlastʹ grammatiki i grammatika vlasti ; Modusy, tropy i zhanry sovetskogo patriotizma : konspirologii͡a v formakh samoĭ zhizni ; Gesamtkriegswerk : zerkala kholodnoĭ voĭny ; Ėpikriz (vmesto ėpiloga)

• Том 1. Победа над революцей : преображенная война ; Аллегория--синекдоха--метаморфоза : политическая тропология историзма ; Постановления о прекрасном : идейность как прием ; Метасталинизм : диалектика партийности и партийность диалектики ; Realästhetik, народность вместо музыки (оратория в пяти частях с прологом и эпилогом) ; Gesamtwissenschaftswerk : роматический натурализм и жизнь в ее революционном развитии
• Том 2. Лингвистический реализм : власть грамматики и грамматика власти ; Модусы, тропы и жанры советского патриотизма : конспирология в формах самой жизни ; Gesamtkriegswerk : зеркала холодной войны ; Эпикриз (вместо эпилога).

A Soviet journalist with the gift of total recall. A psychologist seeking to rehabilitate herself. A government censor with a secret past. Over two decades their fates become entwined as victims and collaborators in Stalin's campaign to rewrite public memory. Long before 'fake news' was an Internet meme, it was called propaganda. And in the Soviet Union, circa 1938, it was the grease that kept Stalin's machinery of terror in motion. By taking us to this world, where justice is arbitrary and freedom as we think of it does not exist, Memoirs of a Forgotten Man forces the audience to consider the fragility of democracy in an era when facts are fungible and history is whatever Dear Leader says it is

• Predislovie / Filitov
• Politicheskiĭ krizis 1939 g. i Sovetskiĭ Soi͡uz / Melʹti͡ukhov M.I.
• Istochnikovedcheskie problemy sovetsko-germanskikh dokumentov avgusta 1939 g.
• Prilozhenii͡a
• Stalin, Gitler i pervyĭ geopoliticheskiĭ kollaps / Libin A.
• Anonimnye publikat͡sii I.V. Stalina o vnesheĭ politike SSSR (1939-1941 gg.) / Nevezhin V.A.
• Prilozhenii͡a. Teksty stateĭ I. V. Stalina
• Sovetskie ot͡senki dogovora o neĭtralitete s I͡Aponieĭ (po arkhivnym dokumentam vtoroĭ poloviny apreli͡a - mai͡a 1941 g.) / Nevezhin V.A.
• Marksistskai͡a polemika kak forma mezhgosudarstvennogo dialoga / Libin A.

• Предисловие / Филитов
• Политический кризис 1939 г. и Советский Союз / Мельтюхов М.И.
• Источниковедческие проблемы советско-германских документов августа 1939 г.
• Приложения
• Сталин, Гитлер и первый геополитический коллапс / Либин А.
• Анонимные публикации И.В. Сталина о внешей политике СССР (1939-1941 гг.) / Невежин В.А.
• Приложения. Тексты статей И. В. Сталина
• Советские оценки договора о нейтралитете с Японией (по архивным документам второй половины апреля - мая 1941 г.) / Невежин В.А.
• Марксистская полемика как форма межгосударственного диалога / Либин А.

• Introduction / David M. Crowe
• Late Imperial and Soviet "show" trials, 1878-1938 / David M. Crowe
• Traitors or war criminals : collaboration on trial in Soviet courts in the 1940s / Alexander V. Prusin
• Nikto ne zabyt : the politicization of Soviet war dead / Thomas Earl Porter
• The human face of Soviet justice? : Aron Trainin and the origins of the Soviet doctrine of international criminal law / Valentyna Polunina
• "May justice be done!" : the Soviet Union and the London Conference (1945) / Irina Schulmeister-André and David M. Crowe
• The Soviet Union at the Palace of Justice : law, intrigue, and international rivalry in the Nuremberg trials / Francine Hirsch
• Soviet journalists at Nuremberg : establishing the Soviet war narrative / Jeremy Hicks
• From Geneva to Nuremberg to New York : Andrey Vyshinsky, Raphaël Lemkin, and the struggle to outlaw revolutionary violence, state terror, and genocide / Douglas Irvin-Erickson

From the 'show' trials of the 1920s and 1930s to the London Conference, this book examines the Soviet role in the Nuremberg IMT trial through the prism of the ideas and practices of earlier Soviet legal history, detailing the evolution of Stalin's ideas about the trail of Nazi war criminals. Stalin believed that an international trial for Nazi war criminals was the best way to show the world the sacrifices his country had made to defeat Hitler, and he, together with his legal mouthpiece Andrei Vyshinsky, maintained tight control over Soviet representatives during talks leading up to the creation of the Nuremberg IMT trial in 1945, and the trial itself. But Soviet prosecutors at Nuremberg were unable to deal comfortably with the complexities of an open, western-style legal proceeding, which undercut their effectiveness throughout the trial. However, they were able to present a significant body of evidence that underscored the brutal nature of Hitler's racial war in Russia from 1941-45, a theme which became central to Stalin's efforts to redefine international criminal law after the war. Stalin's Soviet Justice provides a nuanced analysis of the Soviet justice system at a crucial turning point in European history and it will be vital reading for scholars and advanced students of the legal history of the Soviet Union, the history of war crimes and the aftermath of the Second World War.
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A look at the Stalinist purges and the musical response Dmitri Shostakovich made through his symphonies Four to Nine, which he called "tombstones."