The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin's Special Settlements

Finkel, Stuart

doi:10.1080/03612759.2007.10527165

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“…Outside Russia, there are few studies devoted to the recollections of dekulaked peasants. Western researchers wrote about the dekulaked as about victims of the Soviet regime, who maintained their identity through the Soviet time and, after perestroika, "tore off their masks", started to talk about their fates, and revealed themselves as a school of survivors (Viola, 2007(Viola, , 2011Fitzpatrick, 2005;Litvinenko & Riordan, 1998).…”

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Special Settlers of Arkhangelsk in the Cultural Memory of the Local Community and Their Descendants

Drannikova

2020

Slovenský Národopis / Slovak Ethnology

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The article reports a case study of oral recollections of the descendants of special settlers, i.e. peasants dekulaked and deported to the Arkhangelsk region in the early 1930s. The region was previously a part of the Northern Krai. A historiographical review related to the research topic has been carried out. The concepts of dekulakization in the USSR and destinies of dekulaked are discussed in the local context. The stories of the descendants of the special settlers analysed in the article result from semi-structured interviews. These stories form a hypertext. We select stable motifs of oral stories recorded from the descendants of the special settlers. Conclusions are drawn about the characteristics of the cultural memory of the descendants of the special settlers. The article deals with the features of family identity and the role of awareness of the fate of their relatives in this identity. The children and grandchildren of the special settlers have different attitudes towards dekulakization of the families of their ancestors. This is driven by the diversity of behaviours, choices and particular circumstances of their life. The interpretation is grounded in the idea of variability of the process of special resettlements and its dependence on the regional context, and on the method of family history.

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Special Settlers of Arkhangelsk in the Cultural Memory of the Local Community and Their Descendants

Drannikova

2020

Slovenský Národopis / Slovak Ethnology

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“…The planning of regions and rural settlements generally is covered by Judith Pallot (1979), with more recent works examining events in the Soviet periphery far from Moscow or Leningrad (see works cited in Smith-Peter 2011). The spatial planning, construction, and management of the Gulag labor camp system is another thriving area of research germane to urban and regional planning history (Viola 2007;Bell 2013;Barenberg 2014).…”

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The Routledge handbook of planning history

Meller

2018

Planning Perspectives

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The Routledge Handbook of Planning History offers a comprehensive interdisciplinary overview of planning history since its emergence in the late 19th century, investigating the history of the discipline, its core writings, key people, institutions, vehicles, education, and practice. Combining theoretical, methodological, historical, comparative, and global approaches to planning history, The Routledge Handbook of Planning History explores the state of the discipline, its achievements and shortcomings, and its future challenges.A foundation for the discipline and a springboard for scholarly research, The Routledge Handbook of Planning History explores planning history on an international scale in thirty-eight chapters, providing readers with unique opportunities for comparison. The diverse contributions open up new perspectives on the many ways in which contemporary events, changing research needs, and cutting-edge methodologies shape the writing of planning history.

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The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin's Special Settlements

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Special Settlers of Arkhangelsk in the Cultural Memory of the Local Community and Their Descendants

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