| Titre | "Conduct merciless mass terror": decossackization on the Don, 1919 | |
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| Auteur | Peter Holquist | |
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Revue | Cahiers du monde russe |
| Numéro | volume 38, no 1-2, janvier-juin 1997 Guerre, guerres civiles et conflits nationaux dans l'Empire russe et en Russie soviétique, 1914 - 1922 | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Articles |
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| Page | 127-162 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Peter Holquist, "Conduct merciless mass terror. " Decossackization on the Don, 1919. In 1919 the Soviet regime engaged in a policy to eliminate the "Cossack threat to proletarian power" by "extirpating the Cossack elite"; terrorizing all other Cossacks; and bringing about the "formal liquidation of the Cossackry." This article examines how the Soviet regime conceived, implemented and subsequently renounced decossackization as a policy by analyzing the most extensive case of that policy's implementation, in the Don Territory. In the course of this analysis, previous interpretations of decossackization are reexamined. The article argues that decossackization did not result simply from the exigencies of the Civil War, nor was it the inevitable outcome of socialist politics. It proposes instead that decossackization represented a particularly socialist form of a more general trend emerging throughout Europe at this time: the tendency of states to practice prophylactic political hygiene upon their respective populations. While showing that there was a specifically socialist way of pursuing this new form of "population politics," the article argues that this type of politics must nevertheless be situated as part of a more general European trend emerging during and out of the First World War. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/cmr_1252-6576_1997_num_38_1_2486 |
