Stalinist Terror in Eastern Europe
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Stalinist Terror in Eastern Europe

Elite purges and mass repression

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Stalinist Terror in Eastern Europe

Elite purges and mass repression

About this book

This wide-ranging collection of essays, newly available in paperback, is the first book in English to examine the impact of Stalinist terror on Eastern Europe in the years 1940 to 1956. Covering the Baltic states, Moldavia, East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Albania, the authors investigate terror both 'from above', in the form of elite purges and show trials, and 'from below' in the guise of large-scale arrests and deportations of ordinary people. Key questions addressed include the relative importance of Soviet influence versus 'local' factors; the persecution of particular groups, such as 'kulaks', church leaders, the middle-class intelligentsia and members of non-communist left-wing parties; cases where repression was more, or conversely less, intense than elsewhere; and the relevance of key events such as the Tito-Stalin split of 1948, the Rajk trial of 1949 and the Slánský trial of 1952.

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Table of contents

  1. Front matter
  2. Contents
  3. List of abbreviations and glossary of terms
  4. List of archives and archival abbreviations
  5. Notes on contributors
  6. Chapter 1: Stalinist terror in Eastern Europe: problems, perspectives and interpretations
  7. Chapter 2: Soviet in form, local in content: elite repression and mass terror in the Baltic states, 1940–1953
  8. Chapter 3: Stalinist terror in Soviet Moldavia, 1940–1953
  9. Chapter 4: East Germany, 1945–1953: Stalinist repression and internal party purges
  10. Chapter 5: Stalinism in Poland, 1944–1956
  11. Chapter 6: Stalinist terror in Czechoslovakia: origins, processes, responses
  12. Chapter 7: Stalinist terror in Hungary, 1945–1956
  13. Chapter 8: Political purges and mass repression in Romania, 1948–1955
  14. Chapter 9: Stalinist and anti-Stalinist repression in Yugoslavia, 1944–1953
  15. Chapter 10: Stalinist terror in Bulgaria, 1944–1956
  16. Chapter 11 : Purge and counter-purge in Stalinist Albania, 1944–1956
  17. List of major works cited
  18. Index