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ARTICLE EVALUATION:

I evaluated a article on the book The History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks): the Short Course. The following are my notes on the article.

Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article? I checked the second citation that involves the co Authors of the book as well as a direct quote from A History of Modern Russia: From Nicholas II to Vladimir Putin and they were located in the page listed. Harvard University. I also looked at citation number 12, that citation references page 148 of Writing history in the Soviet Union: Making the Past Work. After going over it I feel the citation should read from page 146-148

Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference? Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted? lot the references if not all come from the same historian Robert Service.

Check out the Talk page of the article. What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic?  There was two conversation going on, one on content and the other on histography. Both by the same person and both dealt what the writer called “false hoods”

How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects? So far it’s not part of anyone’s project but it is on the list of articles to choose from.

In the contents box it has a subsection for Influence on China but the lead has no mention of it.

Also the biggest critic I have is the plagiarism in the lead.

The part labeled 1 is from the wiki article and the part labeled 2 is from the description in Amazon for the same book. I believe only one word is different.

1)first published in 1938. Colloquially known as "the Short Course", it was the most widely disseminated book during the time Joseph Stalin

2) first published in 1938. Colloquially known as "the Short Course," it was the most widely disseminated book during the reign of Joseph 

Article Edit Notes: Evacuation in the Soviet Union-One area of focus I would like to work on the proper use of citation not only for myself but being able to identify inadequate use of them since it is an area I have little experience and feel it would be good practice/experience. I would also like to add more to the subtopic of ‘Evacuating Civilians” since right now the article only has one subtopic which is on the “Evacuation of Industry.” I want my contributions to also compliment what my group members add. I want it to flow like one person wrote it. It is important I don’t overstate facts and to avoid close paraphrasing. All in all this article has a lot of potential for growth.

Possible arrangement of article by section

• Introduction
• Section of "government" which gives introduction to civilians --- along with deportation
• section on "Civilians"
• Section on "industry"
• Section on "Lenin's body" ~~~conortleonard

Governmental policy

With Stalin and the Communist Party's Central Committee knowing that Hitler would eventually turn on the Soviet Union, there were plans made before Operation Barbarossa was launched to begin the evacuation as a precaution to Nazi assault. A Party man in Moscow involved in that city's evacuation committee, Vasilii Prokhorovich Pronin, submitted a plan that would have removed some one million Muscovites, but it was rejected by Stalin. It would have to wait for the actual invasion before the Party enacted any real plan for evacuation.

Two days after the German invasion of June 22, 1941, the Party created an Evacuation Council in an attempt to create a procedure for the coming evacuation of Soviet citizens living close to the Eastern Front. It identified cities along major train routes of the USSR in which people could be removed and taken quickly because they were easily accessible by railroad. As of September, three months following the invasion by the Nazis, the Evacuation Council had 128 centers identified and operating. Prominent city centers that received evacuated citizens (as well as other resources and industry) include Kirov, Iaroslavl, Gorky, Ufa, Sverdlovsk, Cheliabinsk, and Kuibyshev.

Further measures were instated by the Party in order to help dispersed evacuees settle in to life in their new location. Evacuees new to a city were instructed to contact the local authorities so that they could be accounted for. Following this, they received a certificate declaring their evacuee status and allowing them to receive lodgings, food rations, and temporary employment. Evacuees were told that they were allowed to bring personal belongings with them as long as it didn't hinder the authorities' abilities to get them from the evacuated site to the refuge center. Family members' belongings were not to exceed 40 kilograms in weight.

Another instruction from the Central Committee during the months of August and September was for regional governments to build temporary housing for the new-comers if there was not enough existing in that region already. This preceded the measure enacted in November when the Party agreed to establish an Evacuation Administration, thus taking the power out of the hands of regional authorities and centralizing it within the Communist Party. This led to offices of the said agency popping up throughout the evacuation center cities and regions so as to better regulate and look after the dispersed evacuees. The agents of the Evacuation Administration were in charge of making sure that the evacuees were being well taken care of in their new locations. An added concern, in addition to housing, employment, and food, was health care and child care. As of the early months of 1942, still under the one-year mark of being at war with Germany, the government in Moscow had already spent three billion rubles on the evacuation effort.

Deportation as a part of the evacuation

Another civilian population concern that came up after the German invasion was with a group of Soviet civilians who became a part of the evacuation, but were classified as deportees instead of evacuees. The Party feared that these deportees would switch loyalties and fight on the German side. The first of this process, that eventually affected as many as 3.3 million people made up of 52 different nationalities, was a decree published in 1941 that dealt with the removal of Volga Germans that sent them to Siberia and Kazakhstan, far away from the front lines of fighting between the Wehrmacht and Soviets. The rest of the evacuation of suspected-disloyal nationalities took place later in the war during the years of 1943 and '44. Because the Volga Germans were one of two deported nationalities (the other being the Crimean Tatars) that were never returned to their homeland after the war had ended, modern historians interpret this as being within the parameters of an ethnic cleansing.

The Crimean Tatars are an exception to the rule set by the Party that deportation occurred because they suspected questionable nationalities would be pro-German. The Tatars were a Muslim minority and the Party suspected that they would choose their religion over the state.

The deported nationalities generally came from regions close to the Eastern Front and were settled in Kazakhstan and Central Asia during the war. In 1956, over a decade after the end of the Second World War, all of the groups besides the Volga Germans and the Crimean Tatars, were resettled in their native lands. Khrushchev would absolve all blame from the Germans during his time in command of the Communist Party. It is believed that they weren't permitted for resettlement because the area had already been settled by other Soviet civilians in the time since the war's end. The same belief is expressed in regards to why the Crimean Tatars were not granted resettlement.

Deported nationalities along with the year in which deportation occurred

• 1941: the Volga Germans
• 1943: the Karachai
• 1943: the Kalmyks
• 1944: the Chechens
• 1944: the Ingushi
• 1944: the Crimean Tatars
• 1944: the Greeks

A map showing advances made by the Wehrmacht into Soviet territory from 1941 to 1942 following Operation Barbarossa

Photos

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eastern_Front_1941-06_to_1941-12.png