TY  - BOOK
AU  - Werth,Nicolas
AU  - Gross,Jan T.
AU  - Rendall,Steven
TI  - Cannibal Island: Death in a Siberian Gulag 
T2  - Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity
SN  - 9780691262529
AV  - DK771.O2 
U1  - 365/.450947 22/eng/20240417
PY  - 2024///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Forced migration
KW  - Russia (Federation)
KW  - Ob River Region
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Internment camps
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Political persecution
KW  - Political prisoners
KW  - HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Assassination
KW  - Atlantic slave trade
KW  - Banditry
KW  - Bolsheviks
KW  - Bounty hunter
KW  - Cannibalism
KW  - Central Committee
KW  - Civil disorder
KW  - Communal apartment
KW  - Crime
KW  - Dekulakization
KW  - Deportation
KW  - Dilapidation
KW  - Diphtheria
KW  - Displaced person
KW  - Dysentery
KW  - Ethnic cleansing
KW  - Extreme poverty
KW  - Famine
KW  - Gosplan
KW  - Guerrilla warfare
KW  - Gulag
KW  - His Family
KW  - House arrest
KW  - Internment
KW  - Kazakhs
KW  - Kolkhoz
KW  - Kulak
KW  - Labor camp
KW  - Lazar Kaganovich
KW  - Lynching
KW  - Mass arrest
KW  - Matvei
KW  - Mikhail Sholokhov
KW  - Mortality rate
KW  - NKVD
KW  - Narym
KW  - Nazino affair
KW  - New Economic Policy
KW  - Nicolas Werth
KW  - Nomenklatura
KW  - Novosibirsk
KW  - Omsk
KW  - Outlaw
KW  - Overcrowding
KW  - Passportization
KW  - Peasant
KW  - Perestroika
KW  - Police action
KW  - Polish Military Organisation
KW  - Prison
KW  - Rationing
KW  - Refugee
KW  - Residence
KW  - Robert Conquest
KW  - Secret police
KW  - Siberian agriculture
KW  - Social cleansing
KW  - Sovkhoz
KW  - Stalinism
KW  - The Black Book of Communism
KW  - The Great Terror
KW  - Theft
KW  - Tomsk
KW  - Torgsin
KW  - V
KW  - Vyacheslav Molotov
KW  - War communism
KW  - War crime
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword --; Preface --; Glossary --; CHAPTER 1 A “grandiose plan” --; CHAPTER 2 Western Siberia, a Land of Deportation --; CHAPTER 3 Negotiations and Preparations --; CHAPTER 4 In the Tomsk Transit Camp --; CHAPTER 5 Nazino --; Conclusion --; Epilogue, 1933–37 --; Acknowledgments --; Notes; restricted access
N2  - A searing historical account of a tragic episode of the Stalinist terrorDuring the spring of 1933, Stalin’s police rounded up nearly one hundred thousand people as part of the Soviet regime’s “cleansing” of Moscow and Leningrad and deported them to Siberia. Many of the victims were sent to labor camps, but ten thousand of them were dumped in a remote wasteland and left to fend for themselves. Cannibal Island reveals the shocking, grisly truth about their fate.These people were abandoned on the island of Nazino without food or shelter. Left there to starve and to die, they eventually began to eat each other. Nicolas Werth, a French historian of the Soviet era, reconstructs their gruesome final days using rare archival material from deep inside the Stalinist vaults. Werth skillfully weaves this episode into a broader story about the Soviet frenzy in the 1930s to purge society of all those deemed to be unfit. For Stalin, these undesirables included criminals, opponents of forced collectivization, vagabonds, gypsies, even entire groups in Soviet society such as the “kulaks” and their families. Werth sets his story within the broader social and political context of the period, giving us for the first time a full picture of how Stalin’s system of “special villages” worked, how hundreds of thousands of Soviet citizens were moved about the country in wholesale mass transportations, and how this savage bureaucratic machinery functioned on the local, regional, and state levels.Cannibal Island challenges us to confront unpleasant facts not only about Stalin’s punitive social controls and his failed Soviet utopia but about every generation’s capacity for brutality—including our own
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691262529?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691262529
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691262529/original
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