Lynne Viola (Professor of History, Professor of History, University

The Unknown Gulag

The Lost World of Stalin's Special Settlements

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The untold story of the brutal exile of millions of Soviet peasants, based on unprecedented access to Soviet archives

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 510g
• ISBN-13: 9780195385090
• ISBN-10: 0195385098
• Artikelnr.: 25427193

Autorenporträt

Lynne Viola is Professor of History at the University of Toronto. She is the author of The Best Sons of the Fatherland and Peasant Rebels Under Stalin, and the co-editor of The Tragedy of the Soviet Countryside.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: The Other Archipelago
* Part I:: The Destruction of the Kulaks
* Ch 1:: The Preemptive Strike: The Liquidation of the Kulak as a Class
* Ch 2:: Banishment: The Deportation of the Kulaks
* Ch 3:: No Pretensions to Reality: Forced Labor and the Bergavinov
Commission
* Ch 4:: Pencil Points on a Map: Building the Special Settlements
* Part II:: Life and Labor in the Special Settlements
* Ch 5:: The Penal-Economic Utopia: "Reforging through Labor"
* Ch 6:: Flight and Rebellion: The OGPU Takeover
* Ch 7:: Hunger onto Death: The Famine of 1932/33
* Ch 8:: The Second Dekulakization: Rehabilitation and Repression
* Ch 9:: Tearing the Evil from the Root: War, Redemption, and
Stigmatization