Stalin's quarter-century rule in the USSR left 20 million people dead. In the late 1930s, during the height of the terror, one out of every eight Soviet citizens was shot or sent to a concentration camp. This study examines how people recover from such a repressive regime. It talks to prison survivors, writers and retired camp guards. It visits classrooms where teachers struggle to teach pupils a history that has changed dramatically in detail in the past five years. It talks to persecuted human rights activists and those searching for missing parents and grandparents. In the process, the book raises profound questions about the potential victim and executioner in all of us.
- ISBN10 1852425024
- ISBN13 9781852425029
- Publish Date 15 August 1995
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 5 August 1999
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Serpent's Tail
- Edition Main
- Format Paperback
- Pages 224
- Language English