The Voices of the Dead: Stalin's Great Terror in the 1930s - Softcover

Kuromiya, Hiroaki

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300226780 ISBN 13: 9780300226782

Verlag: Yale University Press UK SR, 2007

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"Kuromiya, one of the most ambitious and responsible historians of the Soviet Union, ably uses his understanding of Soviet institutions and practices to contextualise his extraordinary presentation of individual life and death during the Great Terror."-Timothy Snyder, Yale University 'Kuromiya allows us to peer below the topmost level of the Great Terror to the conditions of individual victims. This is a pioneering work.' - Robert Service, St Antony's Oxford, author of Stalin 'By going through the files of those repressed in Ukraine in the 1930s, Kuromiya teases out the real stories behind the lies of the secret police. He tells a tale of ordinary folk caught up in extraordinary times.' - Martin McCauley, University of London 'No other historian has looked at the interrogation records and compared the initial handwritten record with the official transcript of the interrogation. The result is original and fascinating.' - Catherine Andreyev, Christ Church Oxford 'Kuromiya's research iss most thorough, and the conclusions he draws are careful and judicious.' - Ronnie Kowalski, University of Worcester

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Swept up in the maelstrom of Stalin's Great Terror of 1937-38, nearly one million people died. Most were ordinary citizens who left no records and, as a result, have been completely forgotten. This book is the first to attempt to retrieve their stories and reconstruct their lives, drawing upon recently declassified archives of the former Soviet Secret Police in Kiev. Hiroaki Kuromiya uncovers the hushed voices of the condemned and chronicles the same dehumanising fate - falsely arrested, executed and dumped in mass graves. Kuromiya investigates the truth behind the fabricated records, filling in at least some of the details of the lives and deaths of ballerinas, priests, beggars, teachers, peasants, workers, soldiers, pensioners, homemakers, fugitives, peddlers, ethnic Russians, Ukrainians, Poles, Germans, Koreans, Jews and others. In recounting the extraordinary stories gleaned from the secret files, Kuromiya not only commemorates the dead and forgotten but also sheds new light on Soviet society and provides original insights into the enigma of Stalinist terror. 'This is a pioneering work', Robert Service, University of Oxford 'one of the most ambitious and responsible historians of the Soviet Union', Timothy Snyder, Yale University Hiroaki Kuromiya is Professor of History, Indiana University. He is the author of three previous works on Stalin and Stalinist Russia.

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• Verlag: Yale University Press UK SR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0300226780
• ISBN 13: 9780300226782
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304