Giles Udy’s highly readable new book is the best concise history of Soviet repression. It is illustrated with large maps and historic photos which have been made clearer and more impactful with the use of AI software. A full timeline covers the whole period. Individual stories bring the human tragedy to life. This is a key book for students studying this period of history. 80 pages.
From the back cover:
A network of thousands of prisons, labour camps and exile settlements, collectively known as the Gulag, was established over the vast reaches of the Soviet Union.
Conditions in the camps were harsh, with prisoners subjected to brutal physical and psychological abuse, extreme cold and near starvation. Over two and a half million never returned home, dying in exile or captivity. Hundreds of thousands more were shot and their bodies now lie under the earth in mass graves all over the former Soviet Union and in the surrounding nations it occupied. By the time of Stalin’s death in 1953, at least twenty million had perished. Collectively, the events of this period constitute one of the greatest crimes against humanity of the 20th Century.
This is the story of how it unfolded.
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