Ethnic and Religious Minorities in Stalin’s Soviet Union: New Dimensions of Research / ed. by Andrej Kotljarchuk and Olle Sundström. Huddinge: Södertörns högskola, 2017. 283 р.
This anthology presents studies of Stalinism in the ethnic and religious borderlands of the Soviet Union. The authors not only cover hitherto less researched geographical areas, but have also addressed new questions and added new source material. Most of the contributors to this anthology use a micro-historical approach. With this approach, it is not the entire area of the country, with millions of separate individuals that are in focus but rather particular and cohesive ethnic and religious communities.
Micro-history does not mean ignoring a macro-historical perspective. What happened on the local level had an all-Union context, and communism was a European-wide phenomenon. This means that the history of minorities in the Soviet Union during Stalin’s rule cannot be grasped outside the national and international context; aspects which are also considered in this volume. The chapters of the book are case studies on various minority groups, both ethnic and religious. In this way, the book gives a more complex picture of the causes and effects of the state-run mass violence during Stalinism.
The publication is the outcome of a multidisciplinary international research network lead by Andrej Kotljarchuk (Södertörn University, Sweden) and Olle Sundström (Umeå University, Sweden) and consisting of specialists from Estonia, France, Germany, Russia, Sweden, Ukraine and the United States. These scholars represent various disciplines: Anthropology, Cultural Studies, History and the History of Religions.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
Foreword
ANDREJ KOTLJARCHUK & OLLE SUNDSTRÖM. Introduction
PART 1 National Operations of the NKVD. A General Approach
CHAPTER 1
HIROAKI KUROMIYA. The Great Terror. New Dimensions of Research
CHAPTER 2
ANDREY SAVIN. Ethnification of Stalinism? Ethnic Cleansings and the NKVD Order № 00447 in a Comparative Perspective
CHAPTER 3
VICTOR DÖNNINGHAUS. ‘He who Is not with Us Is against Us.’ Elimination of the ‘Fifth Column’ in the Soviet Union, 1937–1938
PART 2 Ethnic Minorities in the Great Terror. Case studies
CHAPTER 4
ANDREJ KOTLJARCHUK. Propaganda of Hatred and the Great Terror. A Nordic Approach
CHAPTER 5
MARC JUNGE & DANIEL MÜLLER. Nation-Building by Terror in Soviet Georgia, 1937–1938
CHAPTER 6
EVA TOULOUZE. A Long Great Ethnic Terror in the Volga Region. A War before the War
PART 3 Religious Minorities under Soviet Repression
CHAPTER 7
OKSANA BEZNOSOVA. The Ukrainian Evangelicals under Pressure from the NKVD, 1928–1939
CHAPTER 8
EVA TOULOUZE, LAUR VALLIKIVI & ART LEETE . The Cultural Bases in the North. Sovietisation and Indigenous Resistance
CHAPTER 9
TATIANA BULGAKOVA & OLLE SUNDSTRÖM. Repression of Shamans and Shamanism in Khabarovsk Krai. 1920s to the early 1950s
CHAPTER 10
YANA IVASHCHENKO. Where Have the Amur Region’s Shamans Gone?
Contributors
Södertörn Academic Studies
Northern Studies
