EAN: 9783838216300

THE YEARS OF GREAT SILENCE - JONATHAN OTTO POHL...

This monograph provides a detailed yet concise narrative of the history of the ethnic Germans
in the Russian Empire and USSR. It starts with the settlement in the Russian Empire by German
colonists in the Volga  Black Sea  and other regions in 1764  tracing their development and
Tsarist state policies towards them up until 1917. After the Bolshevik Revolution  Soviet
policy towards its ethnic Germans varied. It shifted from a generally favorable policy in the
1920s to a much more oppressive one in the 1930s  i.e. already before the Soviet-German war. J.
Otto Pohl traces the development of Soviet repression of ethnic Germans. In particular  he
focuses on the years 1941 to 1955 during which this oppression reached its peak. These years
became known as the Years of Great Silence (die Jahre des grossen Schweigens). In fact  until
the era of glasnost (transparency) and perestroika (rebuilding) in the late 1980s  the events
that defined these years for the Soviet Germans could not be legally researched  written about
or even publicly spoken about  within the USSR.

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