Laboratories of Terror: The Final Act of Stalin's Great Purge in Soviet Ukraine
Lynne Viola · Marc-Stephan Junge
Mar 2023 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Christina Delaine
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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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Christina Delaine is a SOVAS Voice Arts Award and multiple AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator who has recorded over 100 audiobooks. She is also an Audie Award nominee. An accomplished stage and voice actor, Delaine has appeared on stages across the country and has voiced scores of commercials and video games.
Lynne Viola is University Professor of History at the University of Toronto. Her books include Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial and The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin's Special Settlements.
Marc Junge is senior researcher of Eastern European history at the University of Erlangen. His publications include Stalin's Mass Repression and the Cold War Paradigm and Nation-Building by Terror in Soviet Georgia.
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