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100 1 $aViola, Lynne.
245 14 $aThe unknown gulag :$bthe lost world of Stalin's special settlements /$cLynne Viola.
260 $aOxford ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2007.
300 $axxv, 278 p., [14] p. of plates ;$bill., map ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [253]-263) and index.
520 $aOne 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 to explore 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 entire families were callously thrown out of their homes, banished from their villages, and sent to the icy hinterlands of the Soviet Union, where in the course of a decade, almost a half million would die as a result of disease, starvation, or exhaustion. Drawing on pioneering research in the previously closed archives of the central and provincial Communist Party, the Soviet state, and the secret police, Viola documents the history of this tragic episode. She delves into what long remained an entirely hidden world within the gulag, throwing new light on Stalin's consolidation of power, the rise of the secret police as a state within the state, and the complex workings of the Soviet system. But first and foremost, she captures the day-to-day life of Stalin's first victims, telling the stories of the peasant families who experienced one of the twentieth century's most horrific instances of mass repression.
505 0 $aPt. I. 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 -- Pt. II. 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.
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