Sonic Terror: Music, Murder, and Migration in the USSR

• Main Author: Birch, Alexandra
• Other Authors: Edgar, Adrienne
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2024
• Subjects: Russian history; Holocaust studies; Music; Gulag; Holocaust; Kazakhstan; Sound; Soviet; Kolyma; Pivot; Solovetsky; White Sea; saami; Solovetsky Islands
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/65h2r1nq; https://escholarship.org/content/qt65h2r1nq/qt65h2r1nq.pdf

The history of the Soviet Union can be defined by periods of atrocity, genocide, and warfare. The Soviet Gulag, the Holocaust, and the civilian and military engagement in World War Two produced unfathomable mass death in sites across the entire USSR for a half-century. To gain an instant, immersive,...