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Indlæser... The History of the Gulag: From Collectivization to the Great Terror (Annals of Communism Series) (original 2004; udgave 2004)af Oleg V. Khlevniuk (Forfatter), Vadim A. Staklo (Oversætter)
Work InformationThe History of the Gulag: From Collectivization to the Great Terror af Oleg V. KHLEVNIUK (2004)
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Die Reihe "Annals of Communism" publiziert regelmäßig Dokumente aus Partei- oder Staatsarchiven, die von großem Wert für die Historiographie des Kommunismus sind.Khlevniuk legt mit dieser Quellensammlung, die in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Staatsarchiv der Russländischen Föderation (GARF) entstand, eine Dokumentation exemplarischer Quellen der einzelnen Phasen des Straflagersystems zwischen 1929 und 1941 vor. Es empfiehlt sich jedoch zum Beispiel Stettner über die Gulags aus 1996 parallel zu lesen, um die nötigen Hintergrundinformtionen zu erhalten. ( ) Oleg Khlevniuk's Russian archive work on researching the true extent of the destruction of humans under Stalin is by far the best work in the field. By painstakingly analyzing secret reports, top secret letters between Commissars, censuses, official data, the Chrushchov era KGB research, etc. he is capable of giving an authoritative and absolutely fair analysis of exactly what went on in the GULAG system in particular and Stalinism as a whole, how many people were affected and how, and what this means for the accuracy of the 'popular view' of Stalin's crimes. Contrary to Conquest, Malia, Montefiore etc. etc. he presents the facts and the documents as they are and lets them speak for themselves, instead of going on and on about the moral/sentimental issues without any thorough factual backing, as almost all such popular writers on the USSR do. Certainly no fan of Stalin either, he manages to present the simple facts in such a clear and well-evidenced way that he does justice to all involved. An impressive achievement considering the political meaning of the subject. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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The human cost of the Gulag, the Soviet labor camp system in which millions of people were imprisoned between 1920 and 1956, was staggering. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and others after him have written movingly about the Gulag, yet never has there been a thorough historical study of this unique and tragic episode in Soviet history. This groundbreaking book presents the first comprehensive, historically accurate account of the camp system. Russian historian Oleg Khlevniuk has mined the contents of extensive archives, including long-suppressed state and Communist Party documents, to uncover the secrets of the Gulag and how it became a central component of Soviet ideology and social policy.Khlevniuk argues persuasively that the Stalinist penal camps created in the 1930s were essentially different from previous camps. He shows that political motivations and paranoia about potential enemies contributed no more to the expansion of the Gulag than the economic incentive of slave labor did. And he offers powerful evidence that the Great Terror was planned centrally and targeted against particular categories of the population. Khlevniuk makes a signal contribution to Soviet history with this exceptionally informed and balanced view of the Gulag. No library descriptions found. |
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