The Unknown Gulag

Zusatztext This immensely readable book is to be applauded for its clarity and style. Accompanied by an extensive bibliography and notes, it is likely to stand as the most important work on the fate of the peasants under Joseph Stalin. Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext The untold story of the brutal exile of millions of Soviet peasants, based on unprecedented access to Soviet archives Zusammenfassung The untold story of the brutal exile of millions of Soviet peasants, based on unprecedented access to Soviet archives Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Not Available (NA), Lynne Viola, Lynne (Professor of History Viola, Viola Lynne
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.03.2009
• EAN: 9780195385090
• ISBN: 978-0-19-538509-0
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 233 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Print on Demand
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, Russia, European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Political oppression & persecution, Political oppression and persecution, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet, HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era