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Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, there has been a renewal of interest in historical research and a significant growth in publication about the purges, and Stalinist political repression more broadly, both in Russia and in the west. In recent years, the focus of some of this research has moved away from the ‘high politics’ of the Stalinist leadership in Moscow and the relationship between the central state authorities and regional party bosses.1 Aided by the publication of extensive listings of the names of those caught up in the whirlwind of political repression in the 1930s in the various ‘books of martyrs’, we are now able to examine more closely the extent and impact of the terror in its various forms in different regions of the Soviet Union, and to offer a more detailed analysis of the social background of its victims.
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Ilič, M., Joyce, C. (2006). Remembering the Victims of Political Repression: the Purges in Mordoviya. In: Ilič, M. (eds) Stalin’s Terror Revisited. Studies in Russian and East European History and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230597334_8
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