Resumen de Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial: Scenes from the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine, written by Lynne Viola
Lynne Viola’s fascinating and compact new book, Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial, takes advantage of the accessibility of the Ukrainian nkvd archives in Kyiv to paint a collective portrait of a single generation of relatively young and semi-educated second level secret police operatives in the Ukrainian provinces. These men—and they were all men—rose through the ranks of the nkvd from fairly humble beginnings as workers, soldiers, or peasants, who had sometimes experienced the Russian Civil War, but more often cut their teeth as policemen during
