04149nam 2200733 450 991082002190332120200520144314.0615-5225-51-62027/heb32278(CKB)4100000007803170(OCoLC)852388076(MdBmJHUP)muse22288(Au-PeEL)EBL3137356(CaPaEBR)ebr10776449(DE-B1597)633610(DE-B1597)9786155225512(MiAaPQ)EBC3137356(dli)HEB32278(MiU)MIU01200000000000000000022(OCoLC)1338020571(EXLCZ)99410000000780317020121214d2013 uy| 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe village and the class war anti-kulak campaign in Estonia /Anu Mai KõllBudapest ;New York :Central European University Press,2013.1 online resource (298 pages) illustrationsHistorical studies in Eastern Europe and Eurasia ;volume 2Published in 2013 by Central European University Press.Printed in Hungary by Prime Rate Kft., Budapest.615-5225-14-1 Includes bibliographical references 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. 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. This has not been addressed in the existing literature. The results mainly answer the question “how” this process worked, whereas the question ”why” finds hypothetical responses in the life trajectories of actors.Historical studies in Eastern Europe and Eurasia ;v. 2.Collectivization of agricultureEstoniaHistoryCollectivization of agricultureSoviet UnionHistoryState-sponsored terrorismEstoniaHistoryCommunismEstoniaHistory20th centuryPeasantsEstoniaHistory20th centuryCollective farmsEstoniaHistoryLand tenureEstoniaHistoryEstoniaRural conditions20th centuryEstoniaHistory1940-1991Collectivization, Agriculture, Communism, Estonia, Prisoners of war, Rural conditions, Soviet Union.Collectivization of agricultureHistory.Collectivization of agricultureHistory.State-sponsored terrorismHistory.CommunismHistoryPeasantsHistoryCollective farmsHistory.Land tenureHistory.338.1/8479809044Kõll Anu Mai1646377MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910820021903321The village and the class war3993350UNINA