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The Soviet counterinsurgency in the western borderlands /

"The Soviet counterinsurgency in the western borderlands investigates the Soviet response to nationalist insurgencies that occurred between 1944 and 1953 in the regions the Soviet Union annexed after the Nazi-Soviet pact: Eastern Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. Based on new archival dat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Statiev, Alexander, 1956-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Origins of Soviet counterinsurgency
  • The borderland societies in the interwar period : the first Soviet occupation and the emergence of nationalist resistance
  • The borderlands under German occupation (1941-1944) : social context of the Soviet re-conquest
  • Nationalist resistance after the Soviet re-conquest
  • Soviet agrarian policy as a pacification tool
  • Deportations, "repatriations," and other types of forced migrations as aspects of security policy
  • Amnesties
  • Red rurales : the destruction battalions
  • Police tactics : actions of NKVD security units, intelligence gathering, covert operations, and intimidation
  • The church in Soviet security policy
  • Violations of official policy and their impact on pacification
  • Conclusion: nationalist resistance and Soviet counterinsurgency in the global context
  • Appendix A: note on used terms and geographic and personal names
  • Appendix B: note on primary sources.