"Enemies of the people" under the Soviets : a history of repression and its consequences / Peter Julicher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Julicher, Peter, 1946- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953.

Stalin, Joseph.

Glavnoe upravlenie ispravitelʹno-trudovykh lagereĭ OGPU--History.

Glavnoe upravlenie ispravitelʹno-trudovykh lagereĭ OGPU.

Soviet Union. Narodnyĭ komissariat vnutrennikh del--History.

Soviet Union.

Political persecution--Soviet Union--History.

Political persecution.

Political persecution--Social aspects--Soviet Union--History.

Political prisoners--Soviet Union--History.

Political prisoners.

Enemies--Soviet Union--History.

Enemies.

Soviet Union--Politics and government--1936-1953.

Soviet Union--Politics and government--1917-1936.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (284 p.)

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4766-1855-0