The anatomy of terror : political violence under Stalin / ed. by James Harris
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| Other Authors: | Harris, James (Editor) |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Oxford : Oxford Univ. Press, 2013 |
| Edition: | 1. ed |
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| Online Access: | Autorenbiografie Verlagsangaben Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| Table of Contents |
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| General introduction James Harris |
| I. Formative influences. Chekist mentalité and the origins of the Great Terror Iain Lauchlan |
| Intelligence and threat perception : defending the Revolution James Harris |
| II. Stalin and the Party. Stalin : architect of the Terror E.A. Rees |
| The rise and fall of a Party First Secretary : Vainov Iaroslavl' J. Arch Getty |
| III. Practices of state violence. The conceptual and practical origins of Soviet state violence David L. Hoffmann |
| Stalinist repression, modernity and the social engineering argument David Shearer |
| IV. Ideology. Terrors of left and right : 1937 in comparative perspective David Priestland |
| Ideological zig-zag : official explanations for the Great Terror, 1936-1938 David Brandenberger |
| V. Police, justice and terror. 'Mass operations' under Lenin and Stalin Paul Hagenloh |
| Terror and Soviet legality : police vs judiciary, 1933-1940 Gábor T. Rittersporn |
| VI. Precipitants. Fear, loathing, conspiracy : the Kirov murder as impetus for terror Matthew Lenoe |
| Pre-election fever : the origins of the 1937 mass operations J. Arch Getty |
| VII. Victims and perpetrators. Small motors of terror : the role of factory newspapers Wendy Goldman |
| Scapegoating one's comrades in the USSR, 1934-1937 William Chase |
| VIII. Statistics. The Great Terror in historical perspective : the records of the statistical department of the investigative organs of OGPU/NKVD Stephen G. Wheatcroft |
| The Great Terror in Leningrad : evidence from the Leningradskii martirolog Melanie Ilic. |
