A nightmare unfolded in this small, multi-ethnic town in the course of 19 during Stalin’s “Great Terror.” Here, the local NKVD organs created a special “laboratory”-Room 21-for interrogations, beatings, and forced confessions. She applied the “ Test” to her latest book, Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial: Scenes from the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine, and reported the following: On page 99 of Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial, we find ourselves in Room 21 of the Uman NKVD offices in Ukraine.
She is the author of The Best Sons of the Fatherland: Workers in the Vanguard of Soviet Collectivization, Peasant Rebels Under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance, and The Unknown Gulag: the Lost World of Stalin’s Special Settlements. Stalin's principal henchman was Nikolai.Lynne Viola is University Professor at the University of Toronto. Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial powerfully exposes the darkest workings of the NKVD, the political police. Using the accessible archives in Ukraine to examine the interrogation and trial records of these "perpetrators", Viola paints a convincing picture of what she calls "a contrived civil war" against ever larger imagined groups of enemies. When Stalin called off the Great Terror in November 1938, he targeted hundreds of secret policemen who had aided him in the bloodletting of Party officials, elite professionals and hundreds of thousands of ordinary workers and peasants. Millions of others were exiled or imprisoned and would die in conditions of deprivation. In the space of one year, 1937-8, more than 700,000 people in the Soviet Union were executed by their own government. The deed is usually an evil act, and in Lynne Viola's extraordinary, terrifying account, the deeds were the great purges ordered, initiated and perpetrated by Stalin and his agents. "Perpetrator" comes from the Latin perpetrare, "to perform, to accomplish", in other words, "the one who did it". Scenes from the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraineģ04pp.
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