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040 _aCo-BoUCM
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_cSaul Niño
_dSaul Niño
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100 1 _aVatlin, Alexander
_993355
245 1 0 _aAgents of terror
_bordinary men and extraordinary violence in Stalin's secret police
_cAlexander Vatlin ; edited, translated, and with an introduction by Seth Bernstein ; foreword by Oleg Khlevniuk
260 _aWisconsin
_bThe University of Wisconsin Press
_c2016
300 _axxxlv, 171 páginas
_bretratos
500 _a"Originally published as Terror raionnogo masshtaba: 'Massovye operatsii' NKVD v Kuntsevskom raione Moskovskoi oblasti v 1937-38 gg. ©2004 by Alexander Vatlin and Rosspen, Moscow."--Title page verso.
520 _aIn the Great Terror of 1937 38 more than a million Soviet citizens were arrested or killed for political crimes they didn t commit. What kind of people carried out this violent purge, and what motivated them? This book opens up the world of the Soviet perpetrator for the first time. Focusing on Kuntsevo, the Moscow suburb where Stalin had a dacha, Alexander Vatlin shows how Stalinism rewarded local officials for inventing enemies. Agents of Terror reveals stunning, detailed evidence from archives available for a limited time in the 1990s. Going beyond the central figures of the terror, Vatlin takes readers into the offices and interrogation rooms of secret police at the district level. Spurred at times by ambition, and at times by fear for their own lives, agents rushed to fulfill quotas for arresting enemies of the people even when it meant fabricating the evidence. Vatlin pulls back the curtain on a Kafkaesque system, forcing readers to reassess notions of historical agency and moral responsibility in Stalin-era crimes.
546 _aTexto en inglés
650 7 _aPersecuciones políticas
_xHistoria
_zRusia
_921390
650 0 _aCrímenes políticos
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651 7 _aUnion Sovietica
_zHistoria
_993356
700 1 _aBernstein, Seth,
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700 1 _aKhlevni͡uk, O. V.
_q(Oleg Vitalʹevich),
_993358
765 _tTerror raĭonnogo masshtaba
942 _2DEWEY
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