"People are Crying, but I Can’t Stop Laughing": Protest Reaction of the Deportees of Tomsk region to Joseph Stalin’s Death
https://doi.org/10.21603/2078-8975-2021-23-4-920-928
Abstract
The research featured special reports from the Tomsk Department of State Security about the “anti-Soviet” protest movement of Tomsk deportees in the first months after Joseph Stalin's death. The analysis revealed how the deportees adapted to the authority demands and imitated their loyalty to the system, even when the regime positions was clearly weakened. The author analyzed the sanctions imposed on the deportees and the behavior of the local punitive officials, who received no instructions from Moscow. Most likely, the “anti-Soviet” behavior was not so much a purposeful protest as an irrational reaction to such an extraordinary event as Joseph Stalin's death. The responsive actions of the Regional Department of State Security did not follow the new course of Soviet policy but rather the behavioral patterns formed during the Stalin era: violators were identified and punished severely and demonstratively.
About the Author
O. V. Filippenko
Novosibirsk State University of Economics and Management
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Novosibirsk
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Filippenko O.V. "People are Crying, but I Can’t Stop Laughing": Protest Reaction of the Deportees of Tomsk region to Joseph Stalin’s Death. The Bulletin of Kemerovo State University. 2021;23(4):920-928. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.21603/2078-8975-2021-23-4-920-928
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