Echo of great terror. Volume 3. Stalin"s Chekists in a grip of socialist legality. Ego-documents

The third volume of the collection of documents" Echo of the Great Terror "includes" letters to the power of the state security officers of the NKVD of the USSR-organizers and performers of mass punitive operations of 1937-1938, which were in 1939-1941. Under investigation, arrest and court during a large -scale campaign to restore socialist legality, the organizer and conductor of which was the union center. In addition, the collection includes various complexes of documents that set the context of the campaign to discipline the NKVD, reveal its goals and denote the boundaries. We are talking about "letters in power" victims of great terror and their relatives, Chekist reports, orders of the NKVD of the USSR for 1938-1939, materials for checking state security officers carried out by organizations of the CPSU (b), newspaper reports on open trials over the Chekists, etc. . a number of documents, such as various materials of personal cases of state security officers, makes it possible to trace the life trajectories of the Chekists and characterize the genesis of the formation of this specific group of Soviet society