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The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin's Special Settlements
Contemporary Review, Winter, 2007
The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin's Special Settlements. Lynne Viola. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]17.99. xxvii + 278 pages. ISBN 978-0-19-518769-4. Of the numberless horrors committed in the name of Communism, Stalin's 'special settlements' have not received adequate attention.
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These 'settlements' or Gulag's were where Russia's independent peasant farmers were sent in the 1930s when the dictator decided the way forward lay in 'collective farms'. They were separate from the other Gulags to which individuals were sent, places described in Anne Applebaum's earlier work. These were for classes, not individual people and were the earlier model on which the Gulags for individual people were based. The archival information on which this important book was based was only opened in the 1990s. Prof. Viola tells a compelling, if repulsive story, of state-planning based on false economics, class hatreds and the will of a megalomaniac. Millions were sacrificed for 'Soviet state aggrandizement' while apologists for 'Uncle Joe' ignored their plight. By a skilful use of archival material and personal recollections Prof. Viola has told a story which was suppressed for sixty years and she is to be heartily congratulated for her efforts. (L.S.R.)
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