Agents of Terror Ordinary Men and Extraordinary Violence in Stalin's Secret Police |
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| Author:
| Vatlin, Alexander |
| Editor:
| Bernstein, Seth |
| Foreword by:
| Khlevniuk, Oleg |
| ISBN: | 978-0-299-31084-4 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2018 |
| Publisher: | University of Wisconsin Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $29.00 |
Book Description:
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Reveals the brutal acts of local functionaries in Stalin's Soviet Union that added up to more than a million citizen deaths in 1937-38. Spurred by ambition or fear, local secret police filled quotas for arresting "enemies of the people"--even when it meant fabricating evidence.
Reveals the brutal acts of local functionaries in Stalin's Soviet Union that added up to more than a million citizen deaths in 1937-38. Spurred by ambition or fear, local secret police filled quotas for arresting "enemies of the people"--even when it meant fabricating evidence.