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Zusatztext "The detailed personal testimony on the killings, incarcerations, and deportations, and on Soviet policy in action is . . . convincing as well as dramatic and chilling." Informationen zum Autor Jan T. GrossExpanded edition with a new preface by the author Klappentext Jan Gross describes the terrors of the Soviet occupation of the lands that made up eastern Poland between the two world wars: the Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia. His lucid analysis of the revolution that came to Poland from abroad is based on hundreds of first-hand accounts of the hardship! suffering! and social chaos that accompanied the Sovietization of this poorest section of a poverty-stricken country. Woven into the author's exploration of events from the Soviet's German-supported aggression against Poland in September of 1939 to Germany's attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941! these testimonies not only illuminate his conclusions about the nature of totalitarianism but also make a powerful statement of their own. Those who endured the imposition of Soviet rule and mass deportations to forced resettlement! labor camps! and prisons of the Soviet Union are here allowed to speak for themselves! and they do so with grim effectiveness. Zusammenfassung Jan Gross describes the terrors of the Soviet occupation of the lands that made up eastern Poland between the two world wars: the Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia. His lucid analysis of the revolution that came to Poland from abroad is based on hundreds of first-hand accounts of the hardship, suffering, and social chaos that accompanied the Sovietization of this poorest section of a poverty-stricken country. Woven into the author's exploration of events from the Soviet's German-supported aggression against Poland in September of 1939 to Germany's attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941, these testimonies not only illuminate his conclusions about the nature of totalitarianism but also make a powerful statement of their own. Those who endured the imposition of Soviet rule and mass deportations to forced resettlement, labor camps, and prisons of the Soviet Union are here allowed to speak for themselves, and they do so with grim effectiveness. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations xi Preface to the Expanded Edition xiii Preface xv Introduction 3 PART I: SEIZURE ONE: Conquest 17 TWO: Elections 71 THREE: The Paradigm of Social Control 114 PART II: CONFINEMENTS FOUR: Socialization 125 FIVE: Prisons 144 SIX: Deportations 187 EPILOGUE: The Spoiler State 225 HISTORIOGRAPHICAL SUPPLEMENT: A Tangled Web 241 Abbreviations 289 Notes 291 Bibliography 375 Index of Names and Places 383 Subject Index 391 ...
