Unknown Gulag The Lost World of Stalin's Special Settlements

Name: Unknown Gulag The Lost World of Stalin's Special Settlements
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ISBN: 9780195385090

ISBN-10: 0195385098

ISBN-13: 9780195385090

Edition: 2009

Authors: Lynne Viola

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One of Stalin's most heinous acts was the ruthless repression of millions of peasants in the early 1930s, an act that established the very foundations of the gulag. Solzhenitsyn barely touched upon this brutal episode in his magisterial Gulag Archipelago and subsequent writers passed over the subject in silence. Now, with the opening of Soviet archives, an entirely new dimension of Stalin's brutality has been uncovered. The Unknown Gulag is the first book in English toexplore this untold story. Historian Lynne Viola reveals how, in one of the most egregious episodes of Soviet repression, Stalin drove two million peasants into internal exile, to work as forced laborers. The book shows how…

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List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/10/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.70" wide x 8.80" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English



Map


Chronology


Technical Note


Glossary


Introduction: The Other Archipelago



The Destruction of the Kulaks



The Preemptive Strike: The Liquidation of the Kulak as a Class



Banishment: The Deportation of the Kulaks



No Pretensions to Reality: Forced Labor and the Bergavinov Commission



Pencil Points on a Map: Building the Special Settlements



Life and Labor in the Special Settlements



The Penal-Economic Utopia: "Reforging through Labor,"



Flight and Rebellion: The OGPU Takeover



Hunger onto Death: The Famine of 1932/33



The Second Dekulakization: Rehabilitation and Repression



Tearing the Evil from the Root: War, Redemption, and Stigmatization


Conclusion


Appendix


Notes


Research Note


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index