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“Special” Settlements, 1930-1933

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Dispossession, imprisonment, deportation and famine After experimenting in Siberia the previous autumn and winter, the November 1929 plenum of the Communist Party Central Committee decided to proceed with the forced collectivization of the countryside and the “liquidation of the kulaks as a social group” (a process also known as “dekulakization”). The collectivization campaign supported a … Continue reading “Special” Settlements, 1930-1933

The Great Terror, 1937-1938

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Over sixteen months (August 1937-November 1938), more than one and a half million people were arrested in the USSR and sentenced in their absence by regional tribunals -- the extra-judicial troika (“three-member commissions”), dvoika (“two-member commissions”), and Special Board -- or came briefly before the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court in Moscow. No defence … Continue reading The Great Terror, 1937-1938

Wednesday, 5 August 2020. Sandarmokh

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Some photos taken at Sandarmokh by Svetlana Kulchitskaya. The images show: Irina FLIGE laying carnations on a collective memorial; a plaque commemorating Pyotr Didushok-Gelmer (1889-1937 shot); a stone bearing the words "Do not forget these Swedes!"; a plaque commemorating Xenia Djikayeva (1902-1937 shot); and a view of part of the memorial complex.