The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag After Stalin
Author(s): Stephen F. Cohen (Author)
Publisher: Publishingworks
Publication Date: 13 Sept. 2010
Language: English
Print length: 216 pages
ISBN-10: 1933002409
ISBN-13: 9781933002408
Book Description
Joseph Stalin’s reign of terror in the Soviet Union has been called “the other holocaust.” OVer the course of twenty0four years, more innocent men, women, and children perished than died in Hitler’s murder of European Jews. This book originated thirty years ago when Stephen Cohen, Professor of Russian Studies and History at New York University, first began researching the lives of those victims released after Stalin’s death. There was precious little information available, and many of the victims were still afraid, but Cohen persisted, and through the years accumulated the remarkable stories of their return to society.
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Joseph Stalin’s reign of terror in the Soviet Union has been called “the other holocaust.” Over the course of twenty-four years, more innocent men, women, and children perished than died in Hitler’s murder of European Jews. This book originated thirty years ago when Stephen Cohen, Professor of Russian Studies and History at New York University, first began researching the lives of those victims released after Stalin’s death. There was precious littler information available, and many of the victims were still afraid, but Cohen persisted, and through the years accumulated the remarkable stories of their return to society.
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Joseph Stalin’s reign of terror in the Soviet Union has been called “the other holocaust.” OVer the course of twenty0four years, more innocent men, women, and children perished than died in Hitler’s murder of European Jews. This book originated thirty years ago when Stephen Cohen, Professor of Russian Studies and History at New York University, first began researching the lives of those victims released after Stalin’s death. There was precious little information available, and many of the victims were still afraid, but Cohen persisted, and through the years accumulated the remarkable stories of their return to society.
About the Author
Stephen Cohen is an American scholar of Russian studies. For well over three decades he has been a professor of Russia and its relationship with the US, authoring books such as “Rethinking the Soviet Experience: Politics and History since 1917”, “Sovieticus: American and Soviet Realities” and “Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution.” He is a CBS News consultant and member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is married to Katrina vanden Heuval, editor of “The Nation”, where he is also a contributing editor. They have one daughter together.
Stephen F. Cohen is a well-known scholar of Russian history and politics, media commentator, and author of several widely acclaimed books.
Cohen grew up in Kentucky, attended Indiana University, and received his Ph.D. at Columbia University. For many years, he was Professor of Politics and Director of Russian Studies at Princeton University; where he is now Professor Emeritus. Since 1998, Cohen has been Professor of Russian Studies and History at New York University. Cohen is married to Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation, where he is a contributing editor.
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