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- Title
RESCUED FROM STALIN’S TERROR.
- Authors
Nilsson, Torbjörn
- Abstract
The author analyses the operation by Swedish diplomats in the Soviet Union during the peak of the Stalinist Terror. Although Swedish communists living in the USSR have been in the spotlight of some journalists and historians, the extent of the different Swedish groups and the complicated diplomatic actions to help them are nearly unknown. Who could be saved? Who disappeared in the Gulag? The context is the Soviet actions against all foreigners in the Great Terror from 1937, forcing them to either become Soviet citizens or immediately leave the country. Comparisons are made with Finnish people in the Soviet Union, a group much harder hit by the terror than the small groups of Swedes.
- Subjects
SOVIET Union; STALIN, Joseph, 1879-1953; COMMUNISTS; DIPLOMATS; NONCITIZENS; SWEDES; HISTORIANS; XENOPHOBIA
- Publication
Baltic Worlds, 2024, Vol 17, Issue 1/2, p34
- ISSN
2000-2955
- Publication type
Interview