In this ground-breaking collection, a team of leading experts offer a detailed examination of under-researched aspects of Soviet political repression in the 1930s. Drawing on archival documents and materials that have received little attention in Western historiography, much of the information detailed here is in English for the first time.

Introduction; M.Ilic The Soviet Economy and the Launching of the Great Terror; R.W.Davies Economic Officials in the Great Terror, 1936-38; O.Khlevnyuk Soviet Trade Unions and the Great Terror; J.Jo The Soviet Penal System and the Great Terror; C.Joyce The Forgotten Five Per Cent: Women, Political Repression and the Purges; M.Ilic The Great Terror in Ukraine, 1936-38; V.Vasiliev Remembering the Victims of Political Repression: the Purges in Mordoviya; M.Ilic and C.Joyce Recycled Victims: Repression in the Komi Republic; C.Joyce Index Bibliography

R. W. DAVIES Emeritus Professor, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham, UK
JUNBAE JO PhD Student, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham, UK
CHRISTOPHER JOYCE Former Research Fellow, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham, UK
OLEG KHLEVNYUK Researcher, State Archive of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia
VALERII VASILIEV Researcher, Academy of Sciences, Kiev, Russia