Blood of Others: Stalin’s Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity by RoryFinnin. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022. 352 pp. $80.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4875‐0781‐7
Journal: The Russian Review
Year: 2023

Rory Finnin’s book is not a history of the internal deportation, on May 18–20, 1944, of the Crimean Tatars from their homeland to Uzbekistan and the Urals, where they were restricted to special settlements. Rather, it is a history of the literature written about the event, particularly poetry. As such it is one step removed from the historical events since it deals primarily with its literary depiction rather than the historical narrative itself. It is a comparative literary study aimed primaril