Mcloughlin B., McDermott K. (eds.) Stalin's terror. High politics and mass repression in the Soviet Union

New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. — 255 p. — ISBN10: 1403939039; ISBN13: 978-1403939036.The British, Irish, Russian, American, German and Austrian contributors examine the intricate nature of the mass repression unleashed by the Stalinist leader of the USSR during 1937-38. The first part of the collection deals with annihilation policies against the Soviet elite and the Communist International. The second section of the volume looks at mass operations of the secret police (NKVD) against social outcasts, Poles and other 'hostile' ethnic groups. The final section comprises micro-studies about targeted victim groups among the general population.Rethinking Stalinist TerrorThe Politics of RepressionParty and NKVD: Power Relationships in the Years of the Great Terror
Ezhov's Scenario for the Great Terror and the Falsified Record of the Third Moscow Show Trial
Dimitrov, the Comintern and Stalinist RepressionThe Police and Mass RepressionSocial Disorder, Mass Repression and the NKVD during the 1930s
Mass Operations of the NKVD, 1937-8: A Survey
The "Polish Operation" of the NKVD, 1937-8Victim StudiesForeign Communists and the Mechanisms of Soviet Cadre Formation in the USSR
Stalinist Terror in the Moscow District of Kuntsevo, 1937-8
The Fictitious "Hitler-Jugend" Conspiracy of the Moscow NKVD
Terror against Foreign Workers in the Moscow Elektrozavod Plant, 1937-8