Construyendo y destruyendo un sueño.El estalinismo en la periferia nórdica (1928-1938)

Abstract

The main purpose of this dissertation is to conduct a history of Stalinism from a peripheral perspective The unique case of the Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Autonomous Republic, a region with a particular status during the Soviet interwar period, is the focus of the research. Regarding the chronological framework, the beginning dates back to the time of radical transformations in the late 1920s and concludes with the end of mass repression in 1938. During this period Karelia developed peculiar features unique within Stalin's dictatorship, such as, for example, an earlier outbreak of repression. In order to understand these particular features of the Nordic periphery, the study begins with the political myth of the "construction of socialism", a central element in the understanding of the outcome of events in the second half of the 1930s. This ideological factor is indispensable for understanding the outbreak of mass repression and overcoming the limitations of some of the most popular historiographical trends of recent years. This ideological factor is indispensable for a proper understanding of the outbreak of mass repression and for transcending the limitations of some of the most popular historiographical trends of recent years. On the other hand, the dissertation also makes an exposition of the system itself. Its logic, its paradoxes and its way of exercising power are other factors that must be considered to explain one of the most repressive episodes of contemporary history.