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Author(s): James Harris
ISBN(s): 9780199655663, 0199655669
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Year: 2013
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0199655669 
ISBN 13: 9780199655663
Author: James Harris 

Stalin’s Terror of the 1930s has long been a popular subject for historians. However, while for decades, historians were locked in a narrow debate about the degree of central control over the terror process, recent archival research is underpinning new, innovative approaches and opening new perspectives. Historians have begun to explore the roots of the Terror in the heritage of war and mass repression in the late Imperial and early Soviet periods; in the regime’s focus not just on former ‘oppositionists’, wreckers and saboteurs, but also on crime and social disorder; and in the common European concern to identify and isolate ‘undesirable’ elements. Recent studies have examined in much greater depth and detail the precipitants and triggers that turned a determination to protect the Revolution into a ferocious mass repression. The Anatomy of Terror is an edited volume which brings together the work of the leading historians in the field, presenting not only the latest developments in the subject, but also the latest evolution of the debate. The sixteen chapters are divided into eight themes, with some themes reflecting the diversity of sources, methodologies and angles of approach, others showing stark differences of opinion. This opens up the field of study to further research, and this volume will proof indispensable for historians of political violence and of the era of Stalinist Terror.

The Anatomy of Terror Political Violence under Stalin 1st Table of contents:

I. FORMATIVE INFLUENCES
Introduction
1. Chekist Mentalité and the Origins of the Great Terror
2. Intelligence and Threat Perception: Defending the Revolution, 1917–1937
II. STALIN AND THE PARTY
Introduction
3. Stalin: Architect of the Terror
4. The Rise and Fall of a Party First Secretary: Vainov of Iaroslavl’
III. PRACTICES OF STATE VIOLENCE
Introduction
5. The Conceptual and Practical Origins of Soviet State Violence
6. Stalinist Repression, Modernity, and the Social Engineering Argument
IV. IDEOLOGY
Introduction
7. Terrors of Left and Right: 1937 in Comparative Perspective
8. Ideological Zig-Zag: Official Explanations for the Great Terror, 1936–1938
V. POLICE, JUSTICE, AND TERROR
Introduction
9. ‘Mass Operations’ under Lenin and Stalin
10. Terror and Soviet Legality: Police vs Judiciary, 1933–1940
VI. PRECIPITANTS
Introduction
11. Fear, Loathing, Conspiracy: The Kirov Murder as Impetus for Terror
12. Pre-election Fever: The Origins of the 1937 Mass Operations
VII. VICTIMS AND PERPETRATORS
Introduction
13. Small Motors of Terror: The Role of Factory Newspapers
14. Scapegoating One’s Comrades in the USSR, 1934–1937
VIII. STATISTICS
Introduction
15. The Great Terror in Historical Perspective: The Records of the Statistical Department of the Inv
16. The Great Terror in Leningrad: Evidence from the Leningradskii martirolog

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