turn-around in 1938 extends far into the realms of the politburo and the party administration. This book’s focus lies on the trials, and in this regard, the author maximizes the ‘yield’ from the source material available. On the one hand, one might expect a more comprehensive view on the court proceedings, since the book is about perpetrators on trial. Verdicts only play a marginal role in this reading. As some defendants were repeatedly put before trial, one would like to know more about the broader sentencing practices. On the other hand, the trials are the analytical and narrative framework for a book on the Great Terror. Viola uses the second storyline to underpin the first. She is interested in the practical implementation of terror and the mindset of those responsible for it and the book lives up to this claim. It is a pioneering work about the mechanisms and the logics of the mass operations that were determined by a complex set of institutional, geographical, and psychological factors. This setting was functioning due to ideological belief – a belief that remained unwavering in the face of their own henchmen.

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动员俄罗斯民族：第一次世界大战中的爱国主义和公民身份

1938 年的转变远远延伸到政治局和党的管理领域。本书的重点在于试验，在这方面，作者最大限度地提高了可用源材料的“收益”。一方面，人们可能期望对法庭诉讼程序有更全面的看法，因为这本书是关于受审的肇事者。判决在这种阅读中只起边缘作用。由于一些被告多次受审，人们想更多地了解更广泛的量刑实践。另一方面，审判是一本关于大恐怖的书的分析和叙述框架。Viola 使用第二个故事情节来支撑第一个。她对恐怖的实际实施以及对恐怖负责的人的心态感兴趣，这本书不辜负这一主张。这是关于由一系列复杂的制度、地理和心理因素决定的群众行动的机制和逻辑的开创性工作。这种设置是由于意识形态信仰而起作用的——这种信仰在他们自己的追随者面前仍然坚定不移。