The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag After Stalin
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Joseph Stalin's reign of terror in the Soviet Union has been called "the other holocaust." Over the course of 24 years, more innocent men, women, and children perished than died in Hitler's murder of European Jews. This book originated 30 years ago when Stephen F. Cohen, a 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. The New York Times - Serge Schmemann …The Victims Return does provide a needed, well-written and compact reminder that Russia is still struggling to reconcile the conflicting narratives of the great crimes in its past, and will continue doing so long after all the victims and perpetrators—often one and the same—are gone…by looking back on his youthful contacts [Cohen] helps us better understand Russia's enigmatic present, and better appreciate what to look for as it lurches into the future.
Prologue 1Chapter 1 The History of A Book 7Chapter 2 Liberation 26Chapter 3 The Victims Return 57Chapter 4 The Rise and Fall of "Khrushchev's Zeks" 87Chapter 5 The Victims Vanish, and Return Again 125Epilogue Stalin's Victims and Russia's Future 167A Few Words Of Gratitude 179Notes 181Index 205
