Gulag Returnees, Crime, and the Fate of Reform after Stalin
by
Miriam Dobson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Between Stalin's death in 1953 and 1960, the government of the Soviet Union released hundreds of thousands of prisoners from the Gulag as part of a wide-ranging effort to reverse the worst excesses and abuses of the previous two decades and revive the spirit of the revolution. This exodus included...