Introduction
What is dubbed "The Great Terror" is one of the most puzzling events of the century; a lurid, hyper-violent nightmare that entirely decimated Soviet society for reasons which have continued to perplex historians. Conventional narratives about the terror describe it as a top-down series of purges directed by an increasingly paranoid Stalin to…
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