Acknowledgements; Introduction J. Arch Getty and Roberta T. Manning; Part
I. Persons and Politics: 1. Narkom Ezhov Boris A. Starkov; 2. The politics
of repression revisited J. Arch Getty; Part II. Backgrounds: 3. The second
coming: class enemies in the Soviet countryside, 1927-1935 Lynne Viola; 4.
The omnipresent conspiracy: on Soviet imagery of politics and social
relations in the 1930s Gábor T. Rittersporn; 5. The Soviet economic crisis
of 1936-1940 and the great purges Roberta T. Manning; 6. The Stakhanovite
movement: the background to the great terror in the factories, 1935-1938
Robert Thurston; Part III. Case Studies: 7. The great terror on the local
level: purges in Moscow factories, 1936-1938 David L. Hoffman; 8. The great
purges in a rural district: Belyi Raion revisited Roberta T. Manning; 9.
The Red Army and the great purges Roger R. Reese; 10. Stalinist terror in
the Donbas: a note Hiroaki Kuromiya; Part IV. Impact and Incidence: 11.
Patterns of repression among the Soviet elite in the late 1930s: a
biographical approach J. Arch Getty and William Chase; 12. The impact of
the great purges on Soviet elites: a case study from Moscow and Leningrad
telephone directories of the 1930s Sheila Fitzpatrick; 13. Victims of
Stalinism: how many? Alec Nove; 14. More light on the scale of repression
and excess mortality in the Soviet Union in the 1930s Stephen G.
Wheatcroft; Index.
