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Zusatztext "This short yet extraordinarily rich account of Stalinist politics and Soviet life should be read widely." ---Hiroaki Kuromiya, Slavonic and East European Review Informationen zum Autor Nicolas Werth is a research director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in France. He is the coauthor of The Black Book of Communism . Klappentext "Perhaps it is not surprising that Nicolas Werth, the French historian who cowrote The Black Book of Communism , has decided in Cannibal Island to return to an incident he merely mentioned in that vast book. He was right to do so: in its way, this small, brilliant work, the description of a single incident, is every bit as powerful a condemnation of Communist ideology as the Black Book itself." --Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag: A History "In this gripping new work, Nicolas Werth documents the horrifying story of the forced deportation of 'socially-dangerous elements' from Moscow and Leningrad to the forbidding island of Nazino. With the use of dramatic new documents from previously classified Soviet archives, he chronicles for the first time in English the atrocities that unfolded on 'cannibal island.' This is an absorbing, indeed chilling tale of savagery, highlighting in microcosm the brutal realities of Stalinist socialism in action." --Lynne Viola, author of The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin's Special Settlements "Werth has as solid a command of the Soviet-era archival documentation as anyone. But while he lays out a synthetic, institutional panorama of a segment of Soviet bureaucracy, he can write at the same time a story full of suspense, in a crisp and lucid style. He certainly does both with shattering effect in his Cannibal Island ." --Jan T. Gross, author of Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland Zusammenfassung During the spring of 1933, Stalin's police rounded up nearly one hundred thousand people as part of the Soviet regime's "cleansing" of Moscow and Leningrad and deported them to Siberia. This work weaves this episode into a broader story about the Soviet frenzy in the 1930s to purge society of all those deemed to be unfit. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by Jan T. Gross ix Preface xiii Glossary xxi CHAPTER 1: A "grandiose plan" 1 CHAPTER 2: Western Siberia! a Land of Deportation 23 CHAPTER 3: Negotiations and Preparations 59 CHAPTER 4: In the Tomsk Transit Camp 86 CHAPTER 5: Nazino 121 Conclusion 171 Epilogue! 1933-37 181 Acknowledgments 194 Notes 195 ...
