TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kõll,Anu Mai
TI  - The village and the class war: anti-kulak campaign in Estonia 
T2  - Historical studies in Eastern Europe and Eurasia
SN  - 6155225516
AV  - HD1492.E7 K59 2013
U1  - 338.1/8479809044 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Budapest, New York
PB  - Central European University Press
KW  - Collectivization of agriculture
KW  - Estonia
KW  - History
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - State-sponsored terrorism
KW  - Communism
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Peasants
KW  - Collective farms
KW  - Land tenure
KW  - Collectivisation de l'agriculture
KW  - Estonie
KW  - Histoire
KW  - URSS
KW  - Terrorisme d'État
KW  - Exploitations agricoles collectives
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Industries
KW  - Agribusiness
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
KW  - Agriculture
KW  - Sustainable Agriculture
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Europe
KW  - Baltic States
KW  - fast
KW  - Rural conditions
KW  - 1940-1991
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-280) and index; The land question in Estonia -- Soviet repression as a special case of state violence -- The anti-kulak campaign -- Inventing kulaks -- Participation at the local level -- Epilogue of March 1949 -- The grammar of terror
N2  - 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. This book 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. The results mainly answer the question "how" this process worked, whereas the question "why" finds hypothetical responses in the life trajectories of the actors involved
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