title: Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial: Scenes from the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine
author:  Lynne Viola 
description: <br><strong>Winner of the Reginald Zelnik Book Prize in History of the Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies</strong>
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  **Kindle Edition, 2017 © The Economist**
  
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  The remaining suspects of a jihadist cell that attacked **Barcelona** appeared
  in court. The attackers used a van to plough into people out for a stroll in
  the city’s Las Ramblas boulevard; hours later, another vehicle hit pedestrians
  in the nearby town of Cambrils. Fifteen people were murdered in the attacks
  and more than 120 wounded. Six assailants were killed by police; it is thought
  the terrorists had been planning a much bigger attack involving bombs, perhaps
  against the Sagrada Família basilica in Barcelona.
  
    
  
  A man fatally stabbed two women in Turku, a city in **Finland** , and injured
  eight other people. Finnish authorities arrested a suspect, a Moroccan asylum-
  seeker, and are treating the incident as Finland’s first terrorist attack.
  
    
  
  Kirill Serebrennikov, a **Russian** theatre director, was placed under h