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REPRESSION
Introduction
This part of Melgrosh illustrates the great wealth of empirical data that are now available to characterize the nature of repression in the USSR in the 1920s-1950s. It contains data not just on the level and incidence of civil repression, but also detailed data on the different types of extra-judicial repression carried out by the security agencies. Recent materials released from the website of the FSB (the Russian Security service) enable us to understand more fully the limited nature of the previously available summary data on political repression in the Soviet Union. The current website covers detailed data on all aspects of Soviet repression. It provides a detailed breakdown of annual data on a) civil repression, b) the different types of political repression, c) the repressed population in the labour camps and exile zone.
For earlier attempts to try to get an overall picture of Soviet repression and see it in perspective see the following: Those marked * are available in full text on line by clicking on the highlighted title.
- Wheatcroft, S.G.* ‘Towards Explaining the Changing Levels of Stalinist Repression in the 1930s: Mass Killings, in S.G.Wheatcroft, ed., Challenging Traditional Views of Russian History, Macmillan/Palgrave 2002, pp. 110-144.
- Wheatcroft, S.G.* ‘The Scale and Nature of Stalinist Repression and its Demographic Significance: On Comments by Keep and Conquest’, Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 52, No. 6, 2000, pp. 1143-1159
- Wheatcroft, S.G.* ‘A Further Note of Clarification on the Famine, the Camps and Excess Mortality’, Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 49, no.3, 1997, pp. 503-5.
- Wheatcroft, S. G.* ‘The scale and nature of German and Soviet Repression and mass-killings, 1930-1945’, Europe and Asia Studies, Vol.48, no.8, 1996, pp. 1319-1353
- Wheatcroft, S. G.* ‘More Light on the Scale of Repression and Excess Mortality in the Soviet Union in the 1930s’, Soviet Studies, April 1990, pp. 355-367.
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