San Antonio College Library

"After Stalin's death, the Soviet Union dismantled its enormous system of terror and torture. Sixty years later, Russia remains the land of the unburied. Memorials to the victems of the gulag are inadequate, and their families have received no significant compensation. In contrast to the Nazis, who created a clear boundary between victims and perpetrators, the Soviet regime terrorized people arbitrarily. Its agents and targets were blurred, and perpetrators...