The Victims Return – Survivors of the Gulag After Stalin – Stephen F. Cohen

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.
About the Author:
Stephen Cohen is an American scholar of Russian studies. For well over three decades he has been a professor of Russia and its relationship with the US, authoring books such as "Rethinking the Soviet Experience: Politics and History since 1917", "Sovieticus: American and Soviet Realities" and "Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution." He is a CBS News consultant and member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is married to Katrina vanden Heuval, editor of "The Nation", where he is also a contributing editor. They have one daughter together.