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Stalin's British Victims (Paperback)
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Stalin's British Victims (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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First published in 2004, this book tells the stories of four
remarkable British women, whose lives were scorched by Stalin's
purges. One was shot as a spy; one nearly died as a slave labourer
in Kazakhstan; and two saw their husbands taken away to the gulag
and had to spirit their small children out of the country. We think
of the horrors of the middle of the twentieth century- the
Holocaust in Central Europe, the purges in the Soviet Union- as
something foreign: terrible, but remote. Rosal Rust, Rose Cohen,
Freda Utley, and Pearl Rimel were all Londoners. Like hundreds of
young, idealistic Britons in the 1930s, they looked to the Soviet
Union for inspiration, for a way in which society could be run
better, without the exploitation and poverty which unrestrained
capitalism had created. They were less fortunate than most of us:
they saw their dreams fulfilled. In this book, Francis Beckett
draws on personal letters, interviews with surviving relatives and
archivists to create a picture of four courageous, intelligent, and
very different women. The result is a harrowing human document with
vivid and unforgettable insights into the world of Stalin's Russia:
its secret trials, labour camps, random disappearances, and
concealed executions.
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