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Sociology and Anthropology Vol. 3(9), pp. 440 - 446
DOI: 10.13189/sa.2015.030903
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Narratives of Exclusion in the Discourse of the Stalinist Great Terror
Vladimir Paperni *
Department of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, University of Haifa, Israel
ABSTRACT
The Great Terror in the USSR of the mid-1930s was an implementation of a social engineering policy aiming at exclusion (extermination or isolation) of certain social, political, and ethnic groups. This policy was embodied in the "Manichean" Stalinist discourse, which was based on imagery of the ideal, absolutely good Soviet polity enclosed within multiple real and symbolic boundaries that various evil "enemies" were constantly trying to trespass. Identification/invention of "the enemies" was realized by means of narratives of exclusion. The author of the offering article analyzes mechanisms of generation, structural peculiarities, and cultural background of narratives of exclusion, which plaid exceptionally important role in the Stalinist repressive practice.
KEYWORDS
Stalinist, Terror, Narrative, Exclusion, Boundary
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[1] Vladimir Paperni , "Narratives of Exclusion in the Discourse of the Stalinist Great Terror," Sociology and Anthropology, Vol. 3, No. 9, pp. 440 - 446, 2015. DOI: 10.13189/sa.2015.030903.
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Vladimir Paperni (2015). Narratives of Exclusion in the Discourse of the Stalinist Great Terror. Sociology and Anthropology, 3(9), 440 - 446. DOI: 10.13189/sa.2015.030903.