"Former" Belarusians on the edge of the new life : Harvard project on the Soviet social system

Abstract

The text analyzes recordings of interviews conducted with Belarusians in American camps for IDPs from 1950-1951 for the purposes of a Harvard University research project intended to gather detailed insight into the Soviet society.

Keywords

• Belarusian emigration
• USSR
• Belarus
• collectivization
• Stalinism
• IDPs