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Review of Agents of Terror: Ordinary Men and Extraordinary Violence in Stalin’s Secret Police by Alexander Vatlin Translated by Seth Bernstein University of Wisconsin Press

Review of Agents of Terror: Ordinary Men and Extraordinary Violence in Stalin’s Secret Police by Alexander Vatlin Translated by Seth Bernstein University of Wisconsin Press

September 18, 2019

Agents of Terror: Ordinary Men and Extraordinary Violence in Stalin’s Secret Police. Vatlin, Alexander. Translated by Seth Bernstein. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2016. ISBN: 9780299310806

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Reviewed by Shalon van Tine, Ohio University

(c) 2019 and 2020 The Middle Ground Journal, Number 19, 2019-2020 school year. http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org See Submission Guidelines page for the journal’s not-for-profit educational open-access policy.

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