Silence Was Salvation
Subtitle: Child Survivors of Stalin's Terror and World War II in the Soviet Union
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780300179453
Subjects: Stalin, joseph, 1879-1953; Children, soviet union; Children, social conditions; Soviet union, biography; Soviet union, politics and government, 1917-1991
Description: Roughly ten million children were victims of political repression in the Soviet Union during the Stalinist era, the sons and daughters of peasants, workers, scientists, physicians, and political leaders considered by the regime to be dangerous to the political order. Ten grown victims, who as children suffered banishment, starvation, disease, anti-Semitism, and trauma resulting from their parents{u2019} condemnation and arrest, now freely share their stories. The result is a powerful and moving oral history that will profoundly deepen the reader{u2019}s understanding of life in the U.S.S.R. under the despotic reign of Joseph Stalin. --Provided by publisher.