Material monografii posvyashchen spetspereselentsam i ikh roli v istorii Severnogo kraya. Rabota soderzhit obobshchennoe issledovanie protsessa raskulachivaniya v SSSR i sud'by spetspereselentsev kak kompleksnaya problema v istoricheskom razvitii i logicheskoy zavershennosti ot likvidatsii kulatskikh khozyaystv, vyseleniya kulakov, trudovogo ispol'zovaniya spetspereselentsev, ikh kul'turnogo, meditsinskogo obsluzhivaniya, uchastiya v VO voyne, trudovogo podviga v predelakh Severnogo kraya. Vpervye raskryt sotsial'no-pravovoy status i kul'turologicheskiy aspekt spetspereselentsev Severnogo kraya. Na osnove arkhivnykh dannykh i drugikh unikal'nykh materialov issleduyutsya kak mekhanizm deportatsii, tak i sama sistema spetspereseleniy, nekotorye arkhivnye dokumenty predstavleny vpervye.Kniga mozhet predstavlyat' interes dlya prepodavateley, studentov vysshikh uchebnykh zavedeniy i shirokogo kruga chitateley Rossii i stran blizhnego zarubezh'ya, vkhodivshikh v sostav SSSR. Rabota mozhet byt' ispol'zovana kak nauchnoe issledovanie i kak nauchno-populyarnaya publikatsiya.