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The village and the class war : anti-kulak campaign in Estonia / Anu Mai Kõll.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Estonian Series: Historical studies in Eastern Europe and Eurasia ; v. 2.Publisher: Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (xii, 283 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 6155225516
  • 9786155225512
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Village and the class warDDC classification:
  • 338.1/8479809044 23
LOC classification:
  • HD1492.E7 K59 2013
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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. 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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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.

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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