Narkom Ezhov / Boris A. Starkov -- The politics of repression revisited / J. Arch Getty -- The second coming : class enemies in the Soviet countryside, 1927-1935 / Lynne Viola -- The omnipresent conspiracy : on Soviet imagery of politics and social relations in the 1930s / Gábor T. Rittersporn -- The Soviet economic crisis of 1936-1940 and the great purges / Roberta T. Manning -- The Stakhanovite movement : the background to the Great Terror in the factories, 1935-1938 / Robert Thurston -- The Great Terror on the local level : purges in Moscow factories, 1936-1938 / David L. Hoffman -- The Great Purges in a rural district : Belyi Raion revisited / Roberta T. Manning -- The Red Army and the Great Purges / Roger R. Reese -- Stalinist terror in the Donbas : a note / Hiroaki Kuromiya -- Patterns of repression among the Soviet elite in the late 1930s : a biographical approach / J. Arch Getty and William Chase -- The impact of the Great Purges on Soviet elites : a case study from Moscow and Leningrad telephone directories of the 1930s / Sheila Fitzpatrick -- Victims of Stalinism : how many? / Alec Nove -- More light on the scale of repression and excess mortality in the Soviet Union in the 1930s / Stephen G. Wheatcroft.
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These essays by scholars from six nations offers contributions to the understanding of Stalinist terror in the 1930s. The essays explore in depth the background of the terror and patterns of persecution, while providing more empirically founded estimates of the numbers of Stalin's victims.