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"Enemies of the people" under the Soviets : a history of repression and its consequences
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"Millions of Soviet citizens were executed and millions 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 be...
"Millions of Soviet citizens were executed and millions 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 prevented the development of a civil society in the Soviet Union"--
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- Creator
- Peter Julicher
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2015]
- Physical Details
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- x, 273 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780786496716, 0786496711, 9781476618555
- OCLC
- ocn883647459
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-260) and index.
- A note about Russian names, words, and dates -- Capitalists, the bourgeoisie, landlords and the Romanovs -- Socialist revolutionaries, anarchists and civil war -- Russian orthodoxy and the Soviet state -- Trotsky and Trotskyism -- Wreckers and kulaks -- Old Bolsheviks, ordinary people and the NKVD -- The military, foreign communists and repatriated POWs -- The creative intelligentsia, cosmopolitans and Jews -- The secret speech and its aftermath -- Epilogue
Subjects
- Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1936-1953.
- Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936.
- Political persecution -- Soviet Union -- History.
- Political persecution -- Social aspects -- Soviet Union -- History.
- Political prisoners -- Soviet Union -- History.
- Enemies -- Soviet Union -- History.
- Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953.
- Glavnoe upravlenie ispravitelʹno-trudovykh lagereĭ OGPU -- History.
- Soviet Union. Narodnyĭ komissariat vnutrennikh del -- History.