{"product_id":"agents-of-terror-ordinary-men-and-extraordinary-violence-in-stalins-secret-police-paperback","title":"Agents of Terror: Ordinary Men and Extraordinary Violence in Stalin's Secret Police - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlexander Vatlin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the Great Terror of 1937-38 more than a million Soviet citizens were arrested or killed for political crimes they didn't commit. What kind of people carried out this violent purge, and what motivated them? This book opens up the world of the Soviet perpetrator for the first time. Focusing on Kuntsevo, the Moscow suburb where Stalin had a dacha, Alexander Vatlin shows how Stalinism rewarded local officials for inventing enemies.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAgents of Terror\u003c\/i\u003e reveals stunning, detailed evidence from archives available for a limited time in the 1990s. Going beyond the central figures of the terror, Vatlin takes readers into the offices and interrogation rooms of secret police at the district level. Spurred at times by ambition, and at times by fear for their own lives, agents rushed to fulfill quotas for arresting \"enemies of the people\"-even when it meant fabricating the evidence. Vatlin pulls back the curtain on a Kafkaesque system, forcing readers to reassess notions of historical agency and moral responsibility in Stalin-era crimes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlexander Vatlin is a professor of history at Moscow State University. The author of many works in Russian, he is the editor of \u003ci\u003ePiggy Foxy and the Sword of Revolution: Bolshevik Self Portrait\u003c\/i\u003es. Seth Bernstein is an assistant professor of history at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 206\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.44 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 03, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45729520582853,"sku":"9780299310844","price":36.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/XDfx_YAyc89780299310844.webp?v=1781221254","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/agents-of-terror-ordinary-men-and-extraordinary-violence-in-stalins-secret-police-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}