{"product_id":"the-years-of-great-silence-9783838216300","title":"The Years of Great Silence: The Deportation, Special Settlement, and Mobilization Into the Labor Army of Ethnic Germans in the Ussr, 1941-1955","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJ. 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\" (\"\u003ci\u003edie Jahre des grossen Schweigens\u003c\/i\u003e\"). In fact, until the era of \u003ci\u003eglasnost\u003c\/i\u003e (transparency) and \u003ci\u003eperestroika\u003c\/i\u003e (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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jonathan Otto Pohl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 383821630X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783838216300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ibidem Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/17\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 266\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.80w x 0.80d","brand":"Jonathan Otto Pohl","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43992718278911,"sku":"9783838216300","price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_23961b7d-0a5b-4890-9f86-8100c0d701eb.jpg?v=1683320399","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-years-of-great-silence-9783838216300","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}