... individual of society differently, and furthermore we cannot hope to understand the actual environment that terror created within the Soviet state. Needless to say, it operated on every level within the society. A constant and resolute fear of various different terror organisations existed. The lives of people within Russia were constantly under the threat of Stalin and those who were associated him. Even if Stalin wasn't directly responsible for the deaths and terror, then it was still certainly under him that enabled it to happen. It is easier to define terror in a political sense, because in an emotional sense, you cannot really say that it was unjustifiable. A person is valid to feel terrorised or in fear, regardless of whether or not that feeling is well founded. Politically, it is the persecution, most terrifyingly without due cause, of a section or indeed the whole of society. Phillip Boobbyer has ...

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