Stalin's British Victims: The Story of Rosa Rust - Couverture rigide

Beckett, Francis

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0750932236 ISBN 13 : 9780750932233

Editeur : The History Press Ltd, 2004

Synopsis

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. Rosa 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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À propos de l'auteur

Francis Beckett is a writer and journalist. He is education correspondent of the New Statesman and a regular contributor to the Guardian. His books include Enemy Within-The Rise and Fall of British Communism.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The History Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0750932236
• ISBN 13: 9780750932233
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible