Minuscule is a verbal and social creation of the Soviet state, which, through repression, discrimination, and control, created communities of "in" and "out", branding the latter with punitive methods and forming a specific language to refer to them. The book focuses on a special category of citizens of the "country of the Soviets" who were deemed "socially dangerous" and punished by being banned from settling in a number of areas of the USSR after being forcibly "removed" from their places of permanent residence and serving their sentences in the Gulag system. The researchers analyse the process of constructing the Bolshevik concept of geographical isolation of the "disloyal" and determine the logic of creating the Soviet space as a space of prohibitions. The regime of the Soviet territories is analysed not only as a manifestation of Stalin's repressive policy, but also as an organic part of the functioning of the totalitarian mechanism, the first turns of which occurred simultaneously with the Bolsheviks' seizure of power.