Table of Contents

List of Tables Preface and Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors List of Archives and Archival Terms Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations Rethinking Stalinist Terror; B.McLoughlin & K.McDermott PART I: THE POLITICS OF REPRESSION Party and NKVD: Power Relationships in the Years of the Great Terror; O.Khlevniuk Ezhov's Scenario for the Great Terror and the Falsified Record of the Third Moscow Show Trial; W.Hedeler Dimitrov, the Comintern and Stalinist Repression; F.Firsov PART II: THE POLICE AND MASS REPRESSION Social Disorder, Mass Repression and the NKVD During the 1930s; D.Shearer Mass Operations of the NKVD, 1937-38: A Survey; B.McLoughlin The 'Polish' Operation of the NKVD, 1937-38; N.Petrov & A.Roginskii PART III: VICTIM STUDIES Foreign Communists and the Mechanisms of Soviet Cadre Formation in the USSE; B.Unfried Stalinist Terror in the Moscow District of Kuntsevo, 1937-38; A.Vatlin & N.Musienko The Fictitious 'Hitler-Jugend' Conspiracy of the Moscow NKVD; H.Schafranek & N.Musienko Terror Against Foreign Workers in the Moscow Elektrozavod Plant, 1937-38; S.Zhuravlev Select Bibliography Index