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1 online resource (353 pages) |
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BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies |
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BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European studies
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| Contents |
Soviet Karelia Politics, planning and terror in Stalin's Russia, 1920-1939; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Notes on the text; Abbreviations and acronyms; Introduction; New spatial histories; Structure of the work; 1 'A dark, backward and oppressed periphery': histories of Karelian space; Territorial shape and status; Economic relations and demographic structures; Karelia at the turn of the twentieth century; 2 'A Scandinavian revolutionary centre': borders, boundaries and spatial ambitions, 1920-8; The Red Finnish model of Karelian autonomy |
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Karelia as a Soviet borderlandKarelia within Soviet space; 3 The limits of autonomy: finance, planning and population, 1920-8; Foundations of Karelian economic autonomy; Population and power on the frontier; Origins and growth of the Karelian Gulag; 4 'A question of survival': centralisation and control of regional space, 1928-32; The evolution of the Karelian state border; The demise of Karelian economic autonomy; Populating the periphery: resettlement and recruitment; Expansion of the Karelian Gulag |
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5 'The Urals-Kuznetsk combine on a smaller scale': visions and realities of peripheral development, 1933-7Bringing the map to life: concepts of Karelian space; The myth of the Second Five-Year Plan; Restructuring power on the periphery; Restructuring population on the periphery; 6 'The republican NKVD has slaughtered all our cadres': terror on the periphery, 1935-9; Central control and the transition to terror, 1935-6; The Great Terror, 1937-8; Retrenchment and expansion, 1938-9; Conclusion; The spatial dynamics of Karelian development; Totalitarianism and space; Notes; Select bibliography |
| Summary |
In 1920, Lenin authorised a plan to transform Karelia, a Russian territory adjacent to Finland, into a showcase Soviet autonomous region, to show what could be achieved by socialist nationalities policy and economic planning, and to encourage other countries to follow this example. However, Stalin's accession to power brought a change of policy towards the periphery - the encouragement of local autonomy which had been a key part of Karelia's model development was reversed, the state border was sealed to the outside world, and large parts of the republic's territory were given over to Gulag lab |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203480441 |
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0203480449 |
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