Kola Sami in the Stalinist Terror : A Quantitative Analysis

• Main Author: Kotljarchuk, Andrej
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Umeå : Umeå University & The Royal Skyttean Society 2012
• Subjects: indigenous people; Stalinist terror; mass violence; Sami; Kola Peninsula; Humanities; Humaniora; History; Historia; Journal of Northern Studies; kola peninsula; sami
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-66477

The study is focused on aspects that have been understudied by previous research on the Kola Sami. First there is a quantitative analysis of the Sami victims of the Stalinist terror. Second there is a discussion of the short- and long-term roles of state violence for the affected indigenous community. Most prior studies of the ethnic aspects of the Stalinist terror have focused on the large Diaspora nationalities or post-war deportations, while this paper concentrates on a small homogenous indigenous community. The study reaches a new level of accuracy about the nature of Soviet terror, and who became victims and why.