Enemies of the People under the Soviets : A History of Repression and Its Consequences
The Soviet era was a time of social and economic upheaval in Russia's history as the Bolsheviks strove to build a socialist utopia based on the theories of Karl Marx. Central to this endeavor was the 25-year dictatorship of Josef Stalin, whose determination to make the Soviet Union a dominant i...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Jefferson : McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers,
2015
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| Schlagworte: | Political persecution Political prisoners Enemies Stalin, Joseph, -- 1879-1953 Glavnoe upravlenie ispravitel'no-trudovykh lagerei OGPU -- History Soviet Union. -- Narodnyi komissariat vnutrennikh del -- History Political persecution -- Soviet Union -- History Political persecution -- Social aspects -- Soviet Union -- History Political prisoners -- Soviet Union -- History Enemies -- Soviet Union -- History mehr... |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (284 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | The Soviet era was a time of social and economic upheaval in Russia's history as the Bolsheviks strove to build a socialist utopia based on the theories of Karl Marx. Central to this endeavor was the 25-year dictatorship of Josef Stalin, whose determination to make the Soviet Union a dominant industrial and military power created misery on a grand scale and caused the deaths of millions of people. Stalin arbitrarily invoked the specter of "enemies of the people" to destroy anyone who opposed the new socialist order. Millions of Soviet citizens were executed in continuous purges, and millions more perished in the slave labor camps of the Gulag. This book describes the fate of those citizens who were declared enemies of the people not because of what they had done but because of who they were. Stalin's repression not only destroyed the best and brightest, it prevented the development of a civil society in the Soviet Union which would have promoted economic justice, the rule of law and basic human rights for all. Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- A Note About Russian Names, Words, and Dates -- Introduction -- I. Capitalists, the Bourgeoisie, Landlords and the Romanovs -- II. Socialist Revolutionaries, Anarchists and Civil War -- III. Russian Orthodoxy and the Soviet State -- IV. Trotsky and Trotskyism -- V. Wreckers and Kulaks -- VI. Old Bolsheviks, Ordinary People and the NKVD -- VII. The Military, Foreign Communists and Repatriated POWs -- VIII. The Creative Intelligentsia, Cosmopolitans and Jews -- IX. The Secret Speech and Its Aftermath -- Epilogue -- Chapter Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index Description based upon print version of record |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (284 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781476618555 1476618550 9780786496716 0786496711 |