Victims of Soviet Terror: The Story of the Memorial Movement Contributor(s): Adler, Nanci D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0275945022 ISBN-13: 9780275945022 Publisher: Praeger OUR PRICE: $74.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 1993 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Civil Rights - History | Russia & The Former Soviet Union - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General |
Dewey: 947.084 |
LCCN: 92-46164 |
Lexile Measure: 1410 |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.00 lbs) 200 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Memorial began as a group of dissidents who secretly met to exchange stories of Stalinist repression, make contacts, and collect whatever records they could obtain to establish historical truths about Soviet totalitarianism. In Victims of Soviet Terror, Nanci Adler records how Memorial grew from a suspect organization to a powerful human rights movement that collects and disseminates information about Stalinism's crimes and has established a monument to the millions persecuted by the K.G.B. across from the Lubyanka, the shrine of totalitarianism. Using Memorial's own documents, interviews with its founders and supporters, and Soviet and Western news accounts, Adler examines Memorial's functions as a historical society and political force, particularly its efforts to posthymously try Stalin and Stalinist leaders for crimes against the Soviet people. |