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1. Aufl. 206 pages ; 21 cm

Even before its dissolution in 1991, the Soviet Union was engaged in an ambivalent struggle to come to terms with its violent and repressive history. Following the death of Stalin in 1953, entrenched officials attempted to distance themselves from the late dictator without questioning the underlying legitimacy of the Soviet system. At the same time, the return of Gulag victims to society opened questions ...

A Virago Book. XIII, 358 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Met lit. opg. en reg. XVII, 237 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

The searing accounts of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Evgeniia Ginsberg and Varlam Shalamov opened the world's eyes to the terrors of the Soviet Gulag. But not until now has there been a memoir of life inside the camps written from the perspective of an actual employee of the Secret police. In this riveting memoir, superbly translated by Deborah Kaple, Fyodor Mochulsky describes being sent to work as a boss ...

Stalin's reign of terror in the Soviet Union has been called 'the other Holocaust'. During the Stalin years, it is thought that more innocent men, women and children perished than in Hitler's destruction of the European Jews. Many millions died in Stalin's Gulag of torture prisons and forced-labour camps, yet others survived and were freed after his death in 1953. This book is the story of the survivors. ...

Includes bibliographical references (pages 521-549) and index. xv, 561 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-255) and index. viii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-428) and index. 448 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-366) and index. xxiv, 379 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.