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![]() ![]() The voices of those hangmen who ultimately became victims of the terror, as well as those they arrested, provide a stark picture of the Great Terror. Lynne Viola has written a fascinating and valuable work. (Sheila Fitzpatrick, author of Everyday Stalinism) This book is exceptional among the voluminous scholarship on Stalin's terror. A 'must read' for scholars and students of the Soviet period. Naimark, The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review) A research tour de force from one of the leading historians of Stalinism, shedding remarkable new light on what happened at the end of the Great Purges. But it also provides crucial lessons about authoritarianism in general and the violence of the security forces that protect it. ![]() Viola's pioneering study helps us understand Soviet perpetrators in the particular. (LA Review of Books) Fascinating and compact. Viola writes words with renewed significance in today's politically volatile, polarized climate. In Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial, Lynne Viola, a professor of history at the University of Toronto, recounts statistics that still defy belief. ![]()
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