Stalinin hirmuhallintoa on kutsuttu joskus toiseksi holokaustiksi, ja sen vankileirien saaristoon hukkui jopa miljoonia ihmisiä. Aleksander Solzenitsynin, Eugenia Ginzburgin ja muiden kirjailijoiden leirikuvausten ansiosta vanki- ja työleirien kauheudet ovat tulleet tutuiksi koko maailmalle. Steph[...]

In this wide-ranging and acclaimed book, Stephen F. Cohen challenges conventional wisdom about the course of Soviet and post-Soviet history. Reexamining leaders from Nikolai Bukharin, Stalin's preeminent opponent, and Nikita Khrushchev to Mikhail Gorbachev and his rival Yegor Ligachev, Cohen shows t[...]

An account of what really happened in Russia after the end of the Soviet Union, and how badly experts and the media misjudged it. The author shows that what many experts call "reform" has for most Russians been a catastrophic development and for the US the worst foreign policy disaster since Vietnam[...]

Stalin's reign of terror in the Soviet Union has been called 'the other Holocaust'. During the Stalin years, it is thought that more innocent men, women and children perished than in Hitler's destruction of the European Jews. Many millions died in Stalin's Gulag of torture prisons and forced-labour [...]