The Voices of the Dead
Stalin's Great Terror in the 1930s
Kuromiya, Hiroaki
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BOOK SUMMARY
Swept up in the maelstrom of Stalins Great Terror of 19371938, nearly a million people died. Most were ordinary citizens who left no records and as a result have been completely forgotten. This book is the first to attempt to retrieve their stories and re
BOOK SYNOPSIS
Swept up in the maelstrom of Stalins Great Terror of 19371938, nearly a million people died. Most were ordinary citizens who left no records and as a result have been completely forgotten. This book is the first to attempt to retrieve their stories and reconstruct their lives, drawing upon recently declassified archives of the former Soviet Secret Police in Kiev. Hiroaki Kuromiya uncovers in the archives the hushed voices of the condemned, and he chronicles the lives of dozens of individuals who shared the same dehumanizing fate: all were falsely arrested, executed, and dumped in mass graves.
Kuromiya investigates the truth behind the fabricated records, filling in at least some of the details of the lives and deaths of ballerinas, priests, beggars, teachers, peasants, workers, soldiers, pensioners, homemakers, fugitives, peddlers, ethnic Russians, Ukrainians, Poles, Germans, Koreans, Jews, and others. In recounting the extraordinary stories gleaned from the secret files, Kuromiya not only commemorates the dead and forgotten but also proposes a new interpretation of Soviet society that provides useful insights into the enigma of Stalinist terror.
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0300123892
ISBN(13-digit): 9780300123890
Dewey Decimal: 947.084/2
Library of Congress: 2007015570
Book Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 295
Paper Weight (lb): 1.65 lb
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