Cannibal Island

Cannibal Island
Werth sets his story within the broader social and political context of the period, giving us for the first time a full picture of how Stalin's system of "special villages" worked, how hundreds of thousands of Soviet citizens were moved about the country in wholesale mass transportations, and how this savage bureaucratic machinery functioned on the local, regional, and state levels. Cannibal Island challenges us to confront unpleasant facts not only about Stalin's punitive social controls and his failed Soviet utopia, but about every generation's capacity for brutality--including our own.
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Werth sets his story within the broader social and political context of the period, giving us for the first time a full picture of how Stalin's system of "special villages" worked, how hundreds of thousands of Soviet citizens were moved about the country in wholesale mass transportations, and how this savage bureaucratic machinery functioned on the local, regional, and state levels. Cannibal Island challenges us to confront unpleasant facts not only about Stalin's punitive social controls and his failed Soviet utopia, but about every generation's capacity for brutality--including our own.
Detaliile produsului
- Cod: BRT9780691130835
- Categoria: Russia & The Former Soviet Union
- Categoria: Politics
- Format: 223 x 146 x 22 mm
- An aparitie: 2007
- Autor: Nicolas Werth
- Editura: Princeton University Press
- Limba: English
- Nr. pagini: 256
- Editie: Hardcover