Regional Influences on the Formulation and Implementation of NKVD Order 00447

Michael Ellman

Europe-Asia Studies, 2010, vol. 62, issue 6, 915-931

Abstract: The article provides an analysis of the regional input into NKVD order 00447, the deadliest of the 1937–1938 state terror attacks on the Soviet population. This regional input concerned the decision to establish regional troikas, the choice of the target groups, the size of the initial limits, the extension of the deadline for completing the operation, the relationship between the initial limits and the final number of victims, the relationship between the final limits and the final number of victims, the actual victims, and unauthorised terror. It is argued that the formulation and implementation of order 00447 was a dynamic process of interaction between the centre and the regions in which the regions played a significant, but subordinate, role.

Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2010.489254

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