num_pages: 274
description: Terror and Democracy in Stalin's Russia is the first book devoted exclusively to popular participation in the Great Terror a period in which millions of people were arrested interrogated shot and sent to labor camps. In the unions and the factories repression was accompanied by a mass campaign for democracy. Party leaders urged workers to criticize and remove corrupt and negligent officials. Workers shop foremen local Party members and union leaders adopted the slogans of repression and used them often against each other to redress long-standing grievances. Using new formerly secret archival sources Terror and Democracy in Stalin's Russia shows how ordinary people moved in clear stages toward madness and self-destruction. Wendy Z. Goldman is a professor of history at Carnegie Mellon University. She is author of Women the State and Soviet Family Policy and Social Life 1917-1936 (Cambridge 1993) winner of the Berkshire Conference Book Award as well as Women at the Gender and Industry in Stalin's Russia (Cambridge 2002).
language: English
title: Terror and Democracy in the Age of Stalin: The Social Dynamics of Repression
publisher: Cambridge University Press