The Unknown Gulag

The untold story of the brutal exile of millions of Soviet peasants, based on unprecedented access to Soviet archives

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.

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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.

Inhalt
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

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