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Inventing the Enemy\n\nDenunciation and Terror in Stalin's Russia\n\nExplores the behaviour of ordinary people during Stalin's terror, revealing the terrible dilemmas people confronted in their struggles to survive.\n\nWendy Z. Goldman (Author)\n\n9780521145626, Cambridge University Press\n\nPaperback / softback, published 8 August 2011\n\n334 pages\n22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.47 kg\n\n'\u2026 essential reading for understanding crucial questions about different levels of responsibility during the Great Terror and how it was not only the Soviet elite, but groups of ordinary people, who actively engaged in their own destruction.' Peter Whitewood, Slavonic and East European Review\n\nInventing the Enemy uses stories of personal relationships to explore the behaviour of ordinary people during Stalin's terror. Communist Party leaders strongly encouraged ordinary citizens and party members to 'unmask the hidden enemy' and people responded by flooding the secret police and local authorities w]