The Resource Agents of Terror
Agents of Terror
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The item Agents of Terror represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item Agents of Terror represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- In 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
- Language
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- eng
- rus
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Isbn
- 9780299310837
- Label
- Agents of Terror
- Title
- Agents of Terror
- Subject
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- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure
- History
- Political persecution
- Political persecution -- Russia (Federation) | Kunt︠s︡evskiĭ raĭon -- History
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General
- Soviet Union, Narodnyĭ komissariat vnutrennikh del
- Soviet Union, Narodnyĭ komissariat vnutrennikh del -- History
- Russia (Federation) -- Kunt︠s︡evskiĭ raĭon
- Language
-
- eng
- rus
- eng
- Summary
- In 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
- Cataloging source
- IDEBK
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Bernstein, Seth
- Dewey number
- 363.3
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HV8225.7.N37
- LC item number
- V3813 2016
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Soviet Union
- Political persecution
- Soviet Union
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Political persecution
- Russia (Federation)
- Label
- Agents of Terror
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 959428145
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780299310837
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 956333
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)959428145
- Label
- Agents of Terror
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 959428145
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780299310837
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 956333
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)959428145
Subject
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure
- History
- Political persecution
- Political persecution -- Russia (Federation) | Kunt︠s︡evskiĭ raĭon -- History
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General
- Soviet Union, Narodnyĭ komissariat vnutrennikh del
- Soviet Union, Narodnyĭ komissariat vnutrennikh del -- History
- Russia (Federation) -- Kunt︠s︡evskiĭ raĭon
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