The documented history of Soviet terror from 1939 to 1953.
Preface
Beriia Takes Over
Mass Killings of Polish POW Officers
The Orel Massacres; The Killings of Senior Military Officers and
War Time Deportations
SMERSH and Abakumov
The Vlasov Movement and Other Collaborators
Abakumov as Head of MGB
Post War Campaigns against the Military
The Anti-Semitic Campaigns
The "Leningrad Affair"
Intelligence, Counterintelligence and Terror Campaigns in East
Europe
Downfall
The Aftermath
Legacy
Appendix I: General Officers of NKVD/NKGB(MVD/MGB), SMERSH
Appendix II: Principle Victims of Stalinist Repression during the
Abakumov Regime, March 1946 - July 1951
Bibliography
Index
MICHAEL PARRISH is Associate Professor, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University. He is a recognized authority on Soviet history during the Stalin period. Among his earlier publications are Soviet Armed Forces, USSR in World War II, The Battle for Moscow, and Soviet Security and Intelligence Organizations (Greenwood Press, 1992).
"Michael Parrish has given us a broad overview of a period which
has not previously been so massively treated. A very useful and
detailed work on an important theme."-Robert Conquest, Hoover
Institution, Stanford University
?there remains much to recommened in this book, ... For any student
of terrorism and conflict, particularly students focusing on the
potential use of weapons of mas destruction, Holy Terror provides a
most palatable way of understanding what happened that fateful day
in Tokyo's subway system and how it came to be.?-Terrorism and
Political Violence
?Parrish demonstrates that terror in Stalin's Russia did not abate
after the great terror of the 1930s, but continued beyond the death
of Stalin. The work is mainly a study of Stalin's apparatus of
repression during the 1940s, i.e., during the decade follwing the
great terror....Recommended for all college and public
libraries.?-Choice
"Parrish demonstrates that terror in Stalin's Russia did not abate
after the great terror of the 1930s, but continued beyond the death
of Stalin. The work is mainly a study of Stalin's apparatus of
repression during the 1940s, i.e., during the decade follwing the
great terror....Recommended for all college and public
libraries."-Choice
"there remains much to recommened in this book, ... For any student
of terrorism and conflict, particularly students focusing on the
potential use of weapons of mas destruction, Holy Terror provides a
most palatable way of understanding what happened that fateful day
in Tokyo's subway system and how it came to be."-Terrorism and
Political Violence
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