Freedom and Terror in the Donbas - A Ukrainian-Russian Borderland, 1870s-1990s

Klappentext This is a book about the steppe frontier land on the border of Ukraine and Russia. A little-known former Cossack land! the Donbas remained a haven for fugitives! providing freedom to whoever needed it. As a result! Stalin's Terror was extraordinarily harsh in the Donbas. Drawing on much new information from formerly closed archives in Ukraine and Russia! the book paints a detailed yet panoramic picture of the tumultuous history of the Donbas and analyzes critical events in modern Ukrainian and Russian history from a regional perspective. Zusammenfassung This is a book about the steppe frontier land on the border of Ukraine and Russia. Making use of formerly closed archives! the author paints a detailed yet panoramic picture of the tumultuous history of the Donbas and analyzes critical events in modern Ukrainian and Russian history from a regional perspective. Inhaltsverzeichnis Note on names; Acknowledgment; Introduction; 1. Life on the wild field; 2. Political development to 1914; 3. War, revolution, and Civil War; 4. The new economic policy; 5. The Famine; 6. The Great Terror; 7. The War; 8. The post-War years; Conclusion; Sources.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Kuromiya Hiroaki, Hiroaki Kuromiya, Hiroaki (Indiana University) Kuromiya, Kuromiya Hiroaki
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 30.10.2003
• EAN: 9780521526081
• ISBN: 978-0-521-52608-1
• Seiten: 380
• Serien: Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies; Cambridge Russian, Soviet and; Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Regional- und Ländergeschichte; Ukraine, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / World, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, General and world history, HISTORY / Europe / Ukraine