Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Introduction J. Arch Getty and Roberta T. Manning; Part I. Persons and Politics: 1. Narkom Ezhov Boris A. Starkov; 2. The politics of repression revisited J. Arch Getty; Part II. Backgrounds: 3. The second coming: class enemies in the Soviet countryside, 1927–1935 Lynne Viola; 4. The omnipresent conspiracy: on Soviet imagery of politics and social relations in the 1930s Gábor T. Rittersporn; 5. The Soviet economic crisis of 1936–1940 and the great purges Roberta T. Manning; 6. The Stakhanovite movement: the background to the great terror in the factories, 1935–1938 Robert Thurston; Part III. Case Studies: 7. The great terror on the local level: purges in Moscow factories, 1936–1938 David L. Hoffman; 8. The great purges in a rural district: Belyi Raion revisited Roberta T. Manning; 9. The Red Army and the great purges Roger R. Reese; 10. Stalinist terror in the Donbas: a note Hiroaki Kuromiya; Part IV. Impact and Incidence: 11. Patterns of repression among the Soviet elite in the late 1930s: a biographical approach J. Arch Getty and William Chase; 12. The impact of the great purges on Soviet elites: a case study from Moscow and Leningrad telephone directories of the 1930s Sheila Fitzpatrick; 13. Victims of Stalinism: how many? Alec Nove; 14. More light on the scale of repression and excess mortality in the Soviet Union in the 1930s Stephen G. Wheatcroft; Index.

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This collection of essays contributes to the understanding of Stalinist terror in the 1930s.