This study of "the Doctors Plot" untangles the post-World War II effort by Stalin to instill state terror by accusing Jewish doctors of high crimes against the state and the party. Hundreds were imprisoned, rumors and fears were spread, and Stalin's plan even extended to a possible war with the United States. STALIN'S LAST CRIME draws on the ...
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the country had an opportunity to face its tortured past. In "Inside the Stalin Archives," Brent asks, why didn't this happen? The author draws on high-level Soviet archives to present a deeply felt and vivid portrait of Russia in the 21st century.
The seven stories in "Street of Lost Brother" reverberate with the haunting themes of duality/duplicity that has become the great signature of Arnost Lustig's fiction. They draw us into a world of loss and contradiction, of people tormented by the uncertainty that comes with never being quite sure where one has been, or is now, or may be going. It ...
On 13th January 1953, a stunned world learned that a vast conspiracy among Jewish doctors to murder Kremlin leaders had been unmasked. Pravda reported that several of the doctors had confessed to the crime. Mass arrests followed. The Doctors' Plot, as this action came to be called, was Stalin's last great criminal conspiracy. In the years since ...
In the year 1632 things couldn't get much worse in northern Germany. There was no food. Disease was rampant. For over a decade religious war had ravaged the land and the people. Catholic and Protestant armies marched and countermarched across the northern plains, laying waste the cities and slaughtering everywhere. In the year 2000 things are ...
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