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.

Product details

• Authors: Kuromiya Hiroaki, Hiroaki Kuromiya, Hiroaki (Indiana University) Kuromiya
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.10.2003
• EAN: 9780521526081
• ISBN: 978-0-521-52608-1
• No. of pages: 380
• Series: Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies; Cambridge Russian, Soviet and
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories