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- The Village and the Class War: Anti-Kulak Campaign in Estonia 1944-49
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: Central European University Press
- Series: Historical Studies in Eastern Europe and Eurasia
summary
Before collectivization of agriculture in Estonia, “kulaks” (better-off farmers) were persecuted and many of them were finally deported in March 1949. This book is situated on the local level; the aim is to understand what these processes meant from the perspective of the Estonian rural population, a kind of study that has been missing so far.
Analyzes the mechanisms of repression, applying new aspects. Repression was mainly conducted through a bureaucratic process where individual denunciations were not even necessary. The main tool of persecution was a screening of the rural population with the help of records, censuses and local knowledge, in order to identify, or invent, “kulak families”. Moreover, in the Estonian sources, the World War II history of each individual was a crucial part of screenings. The prisoners of war of the Red Army, held in camps in Estonia, played an unexpected part in this campaign. Another result is a so far neglected wave of peaceful resistance as the kulak identifications were challenged in 1947-48. This has not been addressed in the existing literature. The results mainly answer the question “how” this process worked, whereas the question ”why” finds hypothetical responses in the life trajectories of actors.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-iv
- Table of Contents
- pp. v-viii
- List of Tables and Graphs
- pp. ix-x
- List of Photographs
- pp. xi-xii
- Chapter 3The Anti-kulak Campaign
- pp. 71-112
- Chapter 4 Inventing Kulaks
- pp. 113-158
- Chapter 5 Participation at the Local Level
- pp. 159-200
- Chapter 6 Epilogue of March 1949
- pp. 201-230
- Chapter 7 The Grammar of Terror
- pp. 231-260
- Appendix I
- pp. 261-267
- Appendix II
- pp. 268-272
- Bibliography
- pp. 273-280
Additional Information
ISBN
9786155225512
Related ISBN(s)
9786155225147
MARC Record
OCLC
852388076
Pages
296
Launched on MUSE
2013-06-30
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2013