00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000004693 20221114014749 0010-0520004693 221114################|##########|#eng## 9780415312165 eng 947.150842 947.150842 BAR s Baron, Nick Soviet Karelia : Politics, Planning and Terror in Stalin's Russia, 1920-1939 / Nick Baron New York : Routledge, 2007 xix, 331 p. ; 24 cm. Indeks : p. 317-331 p. 303-316 In 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. Karelia (Russia-Politics and government-20th century) Soviet Union-Politics and government. 10674/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10675/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10674/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10675/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10675/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10674/MKRI-P/XI-2008