Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial
Scenes from the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine
Lynne Viola
Reviews and Awards
Winner of the Thomas Henry Pentland Molson Prize
Winner of the American Association for Ukrainian Studies' annual Book Prize
"Much detail on how NKVD leaders and rank-and-file interrogators behaved during the height of the terror appears here for the first time, and Viola has expanded our knowledge of how the mass repressions worked." - Robert W. Thurston, Journal of Modern History
"Viola has set a high standard in economical, illuminating prose....Valuable for specialists...Stalinist Perpetrators is also an exemplary monograph for students. A master historian, Viola writes with Chekhovian diagnostic precision." - Cathy A. Frierson, Journal of Social History
"Much detail on how NKVD leaders and rank-and-file interrogators behaved during the height of the terror appears here for the first time, and Viola has expanded our knowledge of how mass repressions worked." - Robert W. Thurston, Journal of Modern History
"This succinct monograph is an important contribution to scholars of Stalinism and the Great Terror... By unpacking the transcripts and formulating her microhistories of the Terror, the author provides a valuable insight into the thinking of the individuals who implemented it, which in turn allows for a useful analysis of how the Stalinist system operated locally." - Curtis Richardson, Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, The University of North Carolina, Europe-Asia Studies