Acknowledgments
The project from which this volume derives began in 2010 at a conference on Stalinist terror, convened by James Harris in Leeds, UK.1 Lynne Viola presented a paper on the general subject of perpetrators.
In response, Marc Junge noted the existence and accessibility of key sources on NKVD perpetrators in the Ukrainian SBU archives. Subsequently, in 2011, Viola and Junge made an initial foray into the Kyiv archives. The volume of materials was so vast that they enlisted a team of experienced scholars from Ukraine, Russia, Moldova, Georgia, and the United States to join them in this research. These scholars included Valeriy Vasylyev, Roman Podkur, Vadym Zolotar’ov, Serhii Kokin, Andrei Savin, and Aleksei Tepliakov. At a later stage, they were joined by Ol’ga Dovbnja, Igor Casu, Timothy Blauvelt, and Jeffrey Rossman. The team published four volumes of archival documents, as well as an anthology of articles, each in Ukrainian and in Russian.2 Although we completed the main body of our work before the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the project’s success was based on Ukrainians, Russians, and others working together. The current, unprovoked war against Ukraine in no way detracts from our successful collaboration, but it is a reminder of the dangers, still, of dictatorial regimes. The chapters presented here are English translations of the final results of this collective work, covering events in the Ukrainian oblasts (or regions) of Kiev (Kyiv), Zhitomir (Zhytomyr), Odessa (Odesa), Vinnitsa (Vinnytsia), Nikolaev (Mykolaiv), and Kharkov (Kharkiv). The pages that follow use the Russian versions of Ukrainian place names given that Russian is the language of the documents.The editors are pleased to take this opportunity to thank the following institutions for their continued support over the years of this project: the German Research Foundation; the American Council of Learned Societies; the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation; the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada; the University of Erlangen, Germany; the University of Toronto, Canada; and the University of Virginia, US. We are especially grateful to the State Archive of the Security Services of Ukraine (Haluzevyi derzhavnyi arkhiv Sluzhby bezpeky Ukrainy) and its fine and professional staff.
In particular, we would like to take this opportunity to thank Mariia Panova, who worked tirelessly with our team; Georhii Smirnov; and the administrator-historians of the archive: Serhii Kokin, I. M. Kulyk, Andrei Kogut, and Vitalii Lytvynenko. We thank the book’s translators (from Russian and German to English), Simon Belokowsky, Aaron Hale-Dorell, and Caroline Cormier, for their excellent work on the project. Peter Solomon also played a key role at the outset of this project. Finally, thank you to Susan Ferber and Oxford University Press for their fine work on this project.Chapter 5 adapts material originally published in Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial: Scenes from the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine by Lynne Viola, and has been reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press.
1. Conference proceedings were later published in James Harris, ed., The Anatomy of Terror: Political Violence under Stalin (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).
2. The published documents are in Marc Junge, Lynne Viola, and Jeffrey Rossman, eds., Ekho bol’shogo terrora v 3 tomakh (Moscow: Probel-2000, 2017–2019) and, in Ukrainian, Vidlunnia velkogo terror v 3 tomakh (Kyiv: Vidavets’ V. Zakharenko, 2017–2019). The anthologies were first published in Z arkhiviv VUChK-GPU-NKVD-KGB, nos. 1–2 (2015) and then in Russian as Marc Junge, Lynne Viola, Jeffrey Rossman, eds., Chekisty na skam’e podsudimykh (Moscow: Probel-2000, 2017).
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