Stephen F. Cohen
On his book The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag After Stalin
Cover Interview of February 14, 2011
biography /
history /
violence /
20th century /
russia /
stalin joseph /
soviet union /
gorbachev mikhail /
khrushchev nikita /
akhmatova anna /
In a nutshell
The story of survivors of the Jewish Holocaust is widely known. The story of surviving victims of Stalin’s 25-year terror is virtually unknown in the West—and even in Russia itself. The Victims Return tells that story. I focus on a wide array of survivors—including many I knew personally in Moscow in the 1970s and 1980s.