Enemies of the People under the Soviets
Subtitle: A History of Repression and Its Consequences
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780786496716
Subjects: Stalin, joseph, 1879-1953; Political persecution; Political prisoners, soviet union; Soviet union, politics and government, 1917-1991
Description: "Millions of Soviet citizens were executed and millions perished in the slave labor camps of the Gulag. This book describes the fate of those citizens who were declared enemies of the people not because of what they had done but because of who they were. Stalin's repression prevented the development of a civil society in the Soviet Union"--