State-sponsored violence in the Soviet Union : skeletal trauma and burial organization in a post-World War II Lithuanian sample

This dissertation investigates both the victims and perpetrators of violence in the Soviet Union during the Stalinist period through a site specific and regional evaluation of burial treatment and perimortem trauma. Specifically, it compares burial treatment and perimortem trauma in a sample (n = 155) of prisoners executed in the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic (L.S.S.R.) by the Soviet security apparatus from 1944 to 1947, known as the Tuskulenai case. It compares that with 3 other cases of state-sponsored violence in Rainiai, Vinnytsia, and Katyn.

Author dc:creator

• Bird, Catherine Elizabeth

Contributors dc:contributor

• Sauer, Norman J.
• Fenton, Todd
• Fujita, Masako
• Hitchcock, Robert
• Jankauskas, Rimantas
• Drexler, Elizabeth

• Atrocities
• Civilians in war
• International relations
• Prisoners of war--Abuse of
• State-sponsored terrorism
• Relations

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

etd:1078
isbn:9781303059889
isbn:1303059886
oclc:931731563
umi:3560220
local:Bird_grad.msu_0128D_11977

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:d.lib.msu.edu:etd_1078