Contents

Acknowledgments

Contributors and Translators

Glossary

Introduction—Lynne Viola and Marc Junge

“The Party Will Demand a Full Reckoning”: Korablev and the Vinnitsa NKVD—Valeriy Vasylyev and Roman Podkur

“The Party Makes Mistakes, the NKVD—Never”: The NKVD in Odessa—Andrei Savin and Aleksei Tepliakov

“A Sacrificial Offering”: Karamyshev and the Nikolaev NKVD—Marc Junge

“Enemies Within”: Pertsov and the NKVD in Kharkov and Odessa—Vadym Zolotar’ov

“Under the Dictation of Fleishman”: The NKVD in Skvira—Lynne Viola

“The Situation at the Time”: The NKVD in Zhitomir—Serhii Kokin

“This Is How You Interrogate and Secure Testimony”: Kocherginskii and the Northern Donetsk Railway NKVD—Jeffrey J.

Index