01935     2200301   4500001002100000005001500021035002000036008004100056020001800097041000800115082001500123084002100138100001600159245009600175260003300271300002600304500002400330504001500354520101400369650005801383650004201441990002501483990002501508990002501533990002501558990002501583990002501608INLIS00000000000469320221114014749  a0010-0520004693221114                |          | eng    a9780415312165  aeng  a947.150842  a947.150842 BAR s0 aBaron, Nick1 aSoviet Karelia :bPolitics, Planning and Terror in Stalin's Russia, 1920-1939 /cNick Baron  aNew York :bRoutledge,c2007  axix, 331 p. ;c24 cm.  aIndeks : p. 317-331  ap. 303-316  aIn 1920, Lenin authorised a plan to transform Karelia, a Russian territory adjacent to Finland, into a showcase Soviet autonomous region, to show what could be achieved by socialist nationalities policy and economic planning, and to encourage other countries to follow this example. However, Stalin?s accession to power brought a change of policy towards the periphery - the encouragement of local autonomy which had been a key part of Karelia?s model development was reversed, the state border was sealed to the outside world, and large parts of the republic's territory were given over to Gulag labour camps controlled by the NKVD, the precursor of the KGB. This book traces the evolution of Soviet Karelia in the early Soviet period, discussing amongst other things how political relations between Moscow and the regional leadership changed over time; the nature of its spatial, economic and demographic development; and the origins of the massive repressions launched in 1937 against the local population. 4aKarelia (Russia-Politics and government-20th century) 4aSoviet Union-Politics and government.  a10674/MKRI-P/XI-2008  a10675/MKRI-P/XI-2008  a10674/MKRI-P/XI-2008  a10675/MKRI-P/XI-2008  a10675/MKRI-P/XI-2008  a10674/MKRI-P/XI-2008