Ethnic and religious minorities in Stalin's Soviet Union : new dimensions of research / edited by Andrej Kotljarchuk & Olle Sundström.

Includes bibliographical references.

List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Foreword -- Introduction / ANDREJ KOTLJARCHUK & OLLE SUNDSTRÖM -- National Operations of the NKVD. A General Approach -- The Great Terror. New Dimensions of Research / HIROAKI KUROMIYA -- Ethnification of Stalinism? Ethnic Cleansings and the NKVD Order № 00447 in a Comparative Perspective / ANDREY SAVIN -- 'He who Is not with Us Is against Us.' Elimination of the 'Fifth Column' in the Soviet Union, 1937-1938 / VICTOR DÖNNINGHAUS -- Ethnic Minorities in the Great Terror. Case studies -- Propaganda of Hatred and the Great Terror. A Nordic Approach / ANDREJ KOTLJARCHUK --Nation-Building by Terror in Soviet Georgia, 1937-1938 / MARC JUNGE & DANIEL MÜLLER -- A Long Great Ethnic Terror in the Volga Region. A War before the War / EVA TOULOUZE -- Religious Minorities under Soviet Repression -- The Ukrainian Evangelicals under Pressure from the NKVD, 1928-1939 / OKSANA BEZNOSOVA -- The Cultural Bases in the North. Sovietisation and Indigenous Resistance / EVA TOULOUZE, LAUR VALLIKIVI & ART LEETE -- Repression of Shamans and Shamanism in Khabarovsk Krai. 1920s to the early 1950s / TATIANA BULGAKOVA & OLLE SUNDSTRÖM -- Where Have the Amur Region's Shamans Gone? / YANA IVASHCHENKO -- Contributors -- Södertörn Academic Studies -- Northern Studies.