CSI Public Lecture: Stalin's Repression and Exile Policy: Deportation of "kulaks" from Kyrgyzstan to Ukraine

Abstract
The lecture will analyse the difficult experiences of families who were victims of repression in the 1930s, focusing on the state's policy toward relatives of those labeled as "enemies of the people."
One example discussed will be the use of the phrase "sent to a camp without the right to correspond for 10 years," which was a tactic to conceal the large number of executions during the "Great Terror" (1937-1938).

The lecture will explore the personal stories, beliefs, and hopes of women who searched for their husbands, many of whom were executed. Being part of an "Enemy of the People" family brought persecution that persisted nearly until the Soviet Union's collapse.
Finally, the lecture will explore the fate of “kulaks” exiled from Kyrgyzstan to southern Ukraine in the 1930s. Archival documents collected during expeditions in Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan, in which the author participated, serve as the primary source for this analysis.

About the speaker: 
Gulzat Alagoz is a historian, a researcher of the "Esimde" research platform. She is a postgraduate student of the Department of History, Archeology and Ethnology named after B. Zhamgerchynov, National Academy of Sciences of Kyrgyzstan.

Date and Time: 30 October, 2024, 14:00 (Bishkek time)
Format: in-person and virtual
Venue: University of Central Asia, conference hall, 2nd floor, Tower B (125/1 Toktogul street), Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. 
Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/99813506758?pwd=t0mVVXfusBZxMl1wgce1TklYQD0tCd.1 
Language: Kyrgyz