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.
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