Stalinist Prepetrators on Trial in Soviet Ukraine, 1938-43 featuring Dr. Lynne Viola
Fri, October 15, 2021 12:00 PM at Online (Zoom)
In what has been dubbed “the purge of the purgers,” almost one thousand NKVD officers were prosecuted by Soviet militarycourts in the last stage of Stalin’s “Great Terror.” The opening of the Ukrainian KGB (SBU) archives has, for the first time,permitted historians to explore this formerly opaque episode in Stalinist repression. This last purge lifts the veil from the innerworkings of the terror as well as the actions and agency of those who prepetrated it.
Lynne Violais University Professor at the University of Toronto. She is a specialist in 20th century Russian history, focusing on political and social history. Her research interests include gender, rurality, political culture, and violence in the era of Stalin. She is the author of numerous articles and five books—The Best Sons of the Fatherland: Workers in the Vanguard of Soviet Collectivization (1987); Peasant Rebels Under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance (1996); The War Against the Peasantry, 1927-1930(2005); The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin’s Special Settlements(2007); and Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial: Scenes from the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine(2017) and the editor or co-editor of 18 books.