title: “German” Operation in the Kazakh SSR (1937– 1938). On the Question of the Ethnic Component of Great Terror
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metadata.value: Zhanbosinova, A. S.
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metadata.value: Potapova, N. A.
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metadata.value: Savin, A. I.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-04-10T09:54:21Z
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metadata.value: 2020-04-10T09:54:21Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-03
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metadata.value: Zhanbosinova A. S., Potapova N. A., Savin A. I. ‘“German” Operation in the Kazakh SSR (1937– 1938). On the Question of the Ethnic Component of Great Terror’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 10, no. 1, 2020, pp. 119–135.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu24.2020.108
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/17310
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metadata.value: The “national” operations of the NKVD during the Great Terror remain one of the hottest debates in
  Soviet history. The sharp gap between the Bolsheviks’ previous national policy encourages historians to advance
  various explanations about what happened. Some scholars believe that “national” operations were based on an
  ethnization of the image of the enemy, and as a result, the ethnic aspect allegedly received a priority over the
  social aspect in the punitive policy of Stalinism. Other historians believe the main reason for the “national” operations
  of the NKVD was the authorities’ desire to eliminate any ties of Soviet citizens with the “hostile capitalist
  environment.” The article presents directives and internal statistics of the NKVD, found in the Central Archive of
  the FSB of the Russian Federation and previously unknown to researchers. The authors discuss the thesis of the
  ethnic component of the Great Terror, using the example of the “German” operation in Kazakhstan. The “national”
  operations were ambivalent. Under conditions of such “landscapes” as industry, transport, and the army, total terror
  was aimed at “nationals” with practically no selection of victims. However, in the countryside, in the “outback”
  of the USSR, in places of compact residences of “hostile” ethnic “contingents,” the state security bodies actively
  selected their victims. Thus, in the Kazakh SSR, the Germans deported to Kazakhstan in 1931–1936 and who
  were extremely dissatisfied with their living conditions became the main target group of the “German” operation.
  Germans who voluntarily moved to Kazakhstan before 1917 suffered much less.
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metadata.value: This research is a part of a project of the Control Committee of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic
  of Kazakhstan No. AP05130870 “Memory of the victims of political repression (1920–1950’s) and its fixation
  in the sacral landscape of Kazakhstan (on the example of East Kazakhstan)”.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Modern History of Russia;Volume 10; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: great terror
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: national operations
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: German operation
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Kazakhstan
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: extrajudicial instances
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: xenophobia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: ethnization of terror
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metadata.value: “German” Operation in the Kazakh SSR (1937– 1938). On the Question of the Ethnic Component of Great Terror
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metadata.value: Article
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