TY - BOOK ID - 9348084 TI - The village and the class war : anti-kulak campaign in Estonia PY - 2013 SN - 9786155225512 9786155225512 9786155225147 6155225516 6155225141 PB - Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Collectivization of agriculture KW - State-sponsored terrorism KW - Communism KW - Peasants KW - Collective farms KW - Land tenure KW - History. KW - History KW - Estonia KW - Rural conditions KW - Agrarian tenure KW - Feudal tenure KW - Freehold KW - Land ownership KW - Land question KW - Landownership KW - Tenure of land KW - Peasantry KW - Bolshevism KW - Communist movements KW - Leninism KW - Maoism KW - Marxism KW - Trotskyism KW - Government violence KW - Governmental violence KW - State-sponsored violence KW - State terrorism KW - Violence, Governmental KW - Violence, State-sponsored KW - Agricultural collectivization KW - Collective farming KW - Collectivisation of agriculture KW - Ėstonskai︠a︡ SSR KW - Ėstonskai︠a︡ S.S.R. KW - Estonskaya Sovetskaya Sot︠s︡ialisticheskaya Respublika KW - Ėstonskai︠a︡ Sovetskaia Sot︠s︡ialisticheskaia Respublika KW - Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic KW - Estonskaya SSR KW - Estonskaya S.S.R. KW - Estonian SSR KW - Estonian S.S.R. KW - Eesti Nõukogude Sotsialistik Vabariik KW - ENSV KW - E.N.S.V. KW - Eesti KW - Ėstonii︠a︡ KW - Eesti Vabariik KW - Esthonia KW - Estland KW - Eesti NSV KW - Republic of Estonia KW - Ehstland KW - Esthland KW - R.P.S.S. Estonia KW - RPSS Estonia KW - Estonija KW - Land use, Rural KW - Real property KW - Land, Nationalization of KW - Landowners KW - Serfdom KW - Agriculture, Cooperative KW - Collective settlements KW - Communism and agriculture KW - State farms KW - Agricultural laborers KW - Rural population KW - Marks (Medieval land tenure) KW - Villeinage KW - Collectivism KW - Totalitarianism KW - Post-communism KW - Socialism KW - Village communities KW - Political atrocities KW - Terrorism KW - Agriculture and state KW - Ostland KW - Ėstli︠a︡ndskai︠a︡ gubernīi︠a︡ (Russia) KW - E-books KW - Viro KW - Эстония KW - Collectivization, Agriculture, Communism, Estonia, Prisoners of war, Rural conditions, Soviet Union. KW - Collectivization of agriculture-Estonia-History. KW - Collectivization of agriculture-Soviet Union-History. KW - State-sponsored terrorism-Estonia-History. KW - Communism-Estonia-History-20th century. KW - Peasants-Estonia-History-20th century. KW - Collective farms-Estonia-History. KW - Land tenure-Estonia-History. KW - Estonia-Rural conditions-20th century. KW - Estonia-History-1940-1991. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:9348084 AB - 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. ER -