Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial write by Lynne Viola. This book was released on 2017. Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Between the summer of 1937 and November 1938, the Stalinist regime arrested over 1.5 million people for "counterrevolutionary" and "anti-Soviet" activity and either summarily executed or exiled them to the Gulag. While we now know a great deal about the experience of victims of the Great Terror, we know almost nothing about the lower- and middle-level Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del (NKVD), or secret police, cadres who carried out Stalin's murderous policies. Unlike the postwar, public trials of Nazi war criminals, NKVD operatives were tried secretly. And what exactly happened in those courtrooms was unknown until now. In what has been dubbed "the purge of the purgers," almost one thousand NKVD officers were prosecuted by Soviet military courts. Scapegoated for violating Soviet law, they were charged with multiple counts of fabrication of evidence, falsification of interrogation protocols, use of torture to secure "confessions," and murder during pre-trial detention of "suspects" - and many were sentenced to execution themselves. The documentation generated by these trials, including verbatim interrogation records and written confessions signed by perpetrators; testimony by victims, witnesses, and experts; and transcripts of court sessions, provides a glimpse behind the curtains of the terror. It depicts how the terror was implemented, what happened, and who was responsible, demonstrating that orders from above worked in conjunction with a series of situational factors to shape the contours of state violence. Based on chilling and revelatory new archival documents from the Ukrainian secret police archives, Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial illuminates the darkest recesses of Soviet repression -- the interrogation room, the prison cell, and the place of execution -- and sheds new light on those who carried out the Great Terror.
Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial
Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial write by Lynne Viola. This book was released on 2017-10-11. Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Between the summer of 1937 and November 1938, the Stalinist regime arrested over 1.5 million people for "counterrevolutionary" and "anti-Soviet" activity and either summarily executed or exiled them to the Gulag. While we now know a great deal about the experience of victims of the Great Terror, we know almost nothing about the lower- and middle-level Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del (NKVD), or secret police, cadres who carried out Stalin's murderous policies. Unlike the postwar, public trials of Nazi war criminals, NKVD operatives were tried secretly. And what exactly happened in those courtrooms was unknown until now. In what has been dubbed "the purge of the purgers," almost one thousand NKVD officers were prosecuted by Soviet military courts. Scapegoated for violating Soviet law, they were charged with multiple counts of fabrication of evidence, falsification of interrogation protocols, use of torture to secure "confessions," and murder during pre-trial detention of "suspects" - and many were sentenced to execution themselves. The documentation generated by these trials, including verbatim interrogation records and written confessions signed by perpetrators; testimony by victims, witnesses, and experts; and transcripts of court sessions, provides a glimpse behind the curtains of the terror. It depicts how the terror was implemented, what happened, and who was responsible, demonstrating that orders from above worked in conjunction with a series of situational factors to shape the contours of state violence. Based on chilling and revelatory new archival documents from the Ukrainian secret police archives, Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial illuminates the darkest recesses of Soviet repression -- the interrogation room, the prison cell, and the place of execution -- and sheds new light on those who carried out the Great Terror.
Show Trials
Show Trials - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Show Trials write by George H. Hodos. This book was released on 1987-11-17. Show Trials available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Pp. 83-91 discuss the Slansky trial (1952) and its antisemitic aspects, accompanied by the author's personal notes. Rudolf Slansky (1901-1952), a Jew and secretary-general of the Czechoslovak Communist Party, and fourteen leading party members (eleven of whom were Jews) were prosecuted for conspiring against the state. They were seen as Zionist activists and agents of imperialist Israel. The Jewish descent of the defendants was constantly stressed. Slansky and ten others were hanged in December 1952; the other three were sentenced to life imprisonment. The trial formed a direct link with the Doctors' Plot in the Soviet Union. Hodos himself, a Hungarian Jew, was tried in Hungary in 1954 and sentenced to eight years in prison. Includes information on similar trials in Poland, Romania, East Germany, and Bulgaria.
Conscience on Trial
Conscience on Trial - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Conscience on Trial write by Hiroaki Kuromiya. This book was released on 2012-01-01. Conscience on Trial available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Trial records translated from the Russian and the Ukrainian.
Conspiracy and Paranoia at Shakhty
Conspiracy and Paranoia at Shakhty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Conspiracy and Paranoia at Shakhty write by Annabelle Valerie Autin-Perrault. This book was released on 2014-01-01. Conspiracy and Paranoia at Shakhty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1928, the Soviet government, under the leadership of Joseph Stalin, held the first show trial. The trial, which became the basis and model for the Great Purges under Stalin, was based on alleged sabotage in the mines of the wild frontier of the Donbas region. The trial that unfolded was a dramatic show of lights, red velvet curtains, microphones, conspiracy, denouncement, torture and redemption. The Shakhty Trial was an experiment making an example of those who would not comply with Communist ideology and a reflection of Stalin's brutal leadership.
