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Rescued from Stalin's terror: The unknown Swedish operation in the 1930s
Södertörn University, School of Historical and Contemporary Studies, Institute of Contemporary History.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7766-9536
2024 (English)In: Baltic Worlds, ISSN 2000-2955, E-ISSN 2001-7308, Vol. XVII, no 1-2, p. 35-48Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The author analyses the operation by Swedish diplomatsin the Soviet Union during the peak of the Stalinist Terror. Although Swedish communists living in the USSR have beenin the spotlight of some journalists and historians, the extent ofthe different Swedish groups and the complicated diplomaticactions to help them are nearly unknown. Who could besaved? Who disappeared in the Gulag? The context is the Soviet actions against all foreigners in the Great Terror from 1937,forcing them to either become Soviet citizens or immediatelyleave the country. Comparisons are made with Finnish peoplein the Soviet Union, a group much harder hit by the terror thanthe small groups of Swedes. 

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Södertörns högskola, 2024. Vol. XVII, no 1-2, p. 35-48
Keywords [en]
Swedish communists, Gulag, the Great Terror, Soviet Union, Kiruna-Swedes, diplomacy
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History
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Baltic and East European studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-53917Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85202668491OAI: oai:DiVA.org:sh-53917DiVA, id: diva2:1854303
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Swedes, emotions and moral diplomacy in the Great Terror. Foreign Office´s rescue operation in the Soviet Union, 1937-38, The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies
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The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies, 17/2019Available from: 2024-04-25 Created: 2024-04-25 Last updated: 2025-01-13Bibliographically approved

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