![]() A nightmare unfolded in this small, multi-ethnic town in the course of 19 during Stalin’s “Great Terror.” Here, the local NKVD organs created a special “laboratory”-Room 21-for interrogations, beatings, and forced confessions. She applied the “ Test” to her latest book, Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial: Scenes from the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine, and reported the following: On page 99 of Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial, we find ourselves in Room 21 of the Uman NKVD offices in Ukraine. She is the author of The Best Sons of the Fatherland: Workers in the Vanguard of Soviet Collectivization, Peasant Rebels Under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance, and The Unknown Gulag: the Lost World of Stalin’s Special Settlements. ![]() ![]() Lynne Viola is University Professor at the University of Toronto. ![]()
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