The Years of Great Silence: The Deportation, Special Settlement, and Mobilization Into the Labor Army of Ethnic Germans in the Ussr, 1941-1955 by

The Years of Great Silence: The Deportation, Special Settlement, and Mobilization Into the Labor Army of Ethnic Germans in the Ussr, 1941-1955 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783838216300)

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The Years of Great Silence: The Deportation, Special Settlement, and Mobilization Into the Labor Army of Ethnic Germans in the Ussr, 1941-1955 by

The Years of Great Silence: The Deportation, Special Settlement, and Mobilization Into the Labor Army of Ethnic Germans in the Ussr, 1941-1955

$42.00
The Years of Great Silence: The Deportation, Special Settlement, and Mobilization Into the Labor Army of Ethnic Germans in the Ussr, 1941-1955 by

The Years of Great Silence: The Deportation, Special Settlement, and Mobilization Into the Labor Army of Ethnic Germans in the Ussr, 1941-1955

$42.00
Format: Paperback
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This monograph provides a detailed yet concise narrative of the history of the ethnic Germans in the Russian Empire and USSR. It starts with the settlement in the Russian Empire by German colonists in the Volga, Black Sea, and other regions in 1764, tracing their development and Tsarist state policies towards them up until 1917. After the Bolshevik Revolution, Soviet policy towards its ethnic Germans varied. It shifted from a generally favorable policy in the 1920s to a much more oppressive one in the 1930s, i.e. already before the Soviet-German war.

J. Otto Pohl traces the development of Soviet repression of ethnic Germans. In particular, he focuses on the years 1941 to 1955 during which this oppression reached its peak. These years became known as "the Years of Great Silence" ("die Jahre des grossen Schweigens"). In fact, until the era of glasnost (transparency) and perestroika (rebuilding) in the late 1980s, the events that defined these years for the Soviet Germans could not be legally researched, written about, or even publicly spoken about, within the USSR.

Author: Jonathan Otto Pohl
ISBN-10: 383821630X
ISBN-13: 9783838216300
Publisher: Ibidem Press
Language: English
Published: 05/17/2022
Pages: 266
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.80w x 0.80d
By Jonathan Otto Pohl
By Jonathan Otto Pohl
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Dr. J. Otto Pohl received his PhD in History from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He has taught at the American University Iraq Sulaimani, University of Ghana, and American University of Central Asia. He is the author of Ethnic Cleansing in the USSR, 1937-1949 (Greenwood, 1999) and The Stalinist Penal System (McFarland & Co., 1997). His articles have appeared in, among other journals, The Russian Review, Journal of Genocide Research, Human Rights Review, and Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism.

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