소련의 민족정책 변화와 1937년 한인 강제이주

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to elucidate the causes of Korean deportation from Russian Far East to Central Asia in 1937. From what has been discussed above, we can state the following two points. According to the decision of the Soviet government, the official aim of deportation is “to prevent the penetration of Japanese espionage in the Far Eastern Territory.” And given the international and domestic situations at that time, this concern of the Soviet government had a sufficient basis. In the late 1930s there was possibility of the Japanese invasion to the Russian Far East and some Japanese spies were doing espionage in the Maritimes. But if we have a little more in-depth study, we can find that the ultimate cause of deportation was to be changes in national polices of the Soviet Union. After the death of Lenin, the principle of national self-determination was not followed in the Soviet Union. Especially Stalin's theory of socialism in one country encouraged Russian chauvinism. In the process of agricultural collectivization and construction of the socialist society, self-determination of the Minority and rights of the people were ignored. As a result, deportation of Koreans in Russia could be executed.