Stalin's Outcasts
Title | Stalin's Outcasts PDF eBook |
Author | Golfo Alexopoulos |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | 256 |
Release | 2018-07-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1501720503 |
"I served not in defense of the bourgeois order, but only for a crumb of bread since I was burdened with five small children.""From 1923 to 1925 I worked as a musician but later my earnings weren't steady and I quickly stopped. Without an income to live on, I was drawn to the nonlaboring path.""As a man almost completely illiterate and therefore not prepared for any kind of work, I was forced to return to my craft as a barber.""I am as ignorant as a pipe."Golfo Alexopoulos focuses on the lishentsy ("outcasts") of the interwar USSR to reveal the defining features of alien and citizen identities under Stalin's rule. Although portrayed as "bourgeois elements," lishentsy actually included a wide variety of people, including prostitutes, gamblers, tax evaders, embezzlers, and ethnic minorities, in particular, Jews. The poor, the weak, and the elderly were frequent targets of disenfranchisement, singled out by officials looking to conserve scarce resources or satisfy their superiors with long lists of discovered enemies.Alexopoulos draws heavily on an untapped resource: an archive in western Siberia that contains over 100,000 individual petitions for reinstatement. Her analysis of these and many other documents concerning "class aliens" shows how Bolshevik leaders defined the body politic and how individuals experienced the Soviet state. Personal narratives with which individuals successfully appealed to officials for reinstatement allow an unusual view into the lives of "outcasts." From Kremlin leaders to marked aliens, many participated in identifying insiders and outsiders and challenging the terms of membership in Stalin's new society.
Stalin’s Terror
Title | Stalin’s Terror PDF eBook |
Author | B. McLoughlin |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 255 |
Release | 2002-12-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0230523935 |
The British, Irish, Russian, American, German and Austrian contributors examine the intricate nature of the mass repression unleashed by the Stalinist leader of the USSR during 1937-38. The first part of the collection deals with annihilation policies against the Soviet elite and the Communist International. The second section of the volume looks at mass operations of the secret police (NKVD) against social outcasts, Poles and other 'hostile' ethnic groups. The final section comprises micro-studies about targeted victim groups among the general population.
Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin's Gulag
Title | Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin's Gulag PDF eBook |
Author | Golfo Alexopoulos |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Total Pages | 288 |
Release | 2017-04-25 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0300227531 |
A new and chilling study of lethal human exploitation in the Soviet forced labor camps, one of the pillars of Stalinist terror In a shocking new study of life and death in Stalin’s Gulag, historian Golfo Alexopoulos suggests that Soviet forced labor camps were driven by brutal exploitation and often administered as death camps. The first study to examine the Gulag penal system through the lens of health, medicine, and human exploitation, this extraordinary work draws from previously inaccessible archives to offer a chilling new view of one of the pillars of Stalinist terror.
The Forsaken
Title | The Forsaken PDF eBook |
Author | Tim Tzouliadis |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 456 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781594201684 |
Tzouliadis presents this remarkable piece of forgotten history--the story of how thousands of Americans were lured to Soviet Russia by the promise of jobs and better lives only to meet a tragic and, until now, forgotten end.
Stalin
Title | Stalin PDF eBook |
Author | Adam B. Ulam |
Publisher | Beacon Press |
Total Pages | 788 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780807070055 |
Perestroika and glasnost have unleashed unprecedented criticism of Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union, and the terrible legacy of his regime has been acknowledged by Mikhail Gorbachev.
Breaking Stalin's Nose
Title | Breaking Stalin's Nose PDF eBook |
Author | Eugene Yelchin |
Publisher | Henry Holt and Company (BYR) |
Total Pages | 162 |
Release | 2011-09-27 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1429949953 |
A Newbery Honor Book. Sasha Zaichik has known the laws of the Soviet Young Pioneers since the age of six: The Young Pioneer is devoted to Comrade Stalin, the Communist Party, and Communism. A Young Pioneer is a reliable comrade and always acts according to conscience. A Young Pioneer has a right to criticize shortcomings. But now that it is finally time to join the Young Pioneers, the day Sasha has awaited for so long, everything seems to go awry. He breaks a classmate's glasses with a snowball. He accidentally damages a bust of Stalin in the school hallway. And worst of all, his father, the best Communist he knows, was arrested just last night. This moving story of a ten-year-old boy's world shattering is masterful in its simplicity, powerful in its message, and heartbreaking in its plausibility. One of Horn Book's Best Fiction Books of 2011
The Whisperers
Title | The Whisperers PDF eBook |
Author | Orlando Figes |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Total Pages | 1000 |
Release | 2008-09-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 014180887X |
Drawing on a huge range of sources - letters, memoirs, conversations - Orlando Figes tells the story of how Russians tried to endure life under Stalin. Those who shaped the political system became, very frequently, its victims. Those who were its victims were frequently quite blameless. The Whisperers recreates the sort of maze in which Russians found themselves, where an unwitting wrong turn could either destroy a family or, perversely, later save it: a society in which everyone spoke in whispers - whether to protect themselves, their families, neighbours or friends - or to inform on them.