A note about Russian names, words, and dates -- Capitalists, the bourgeoisie, landlords and the Romanovs -- Socialist revolutionaries, anarchists and civil war -- Russian orthodoxy and the Soviet state -- Trotsky and Trotskyism -- Wreckers and kulaks -- Old Bolsheviks, ordinary people and the NKVD -- The military, foreign communists and repatriated POWs -- The creative intelligentsia, cosmopolitans and Jews -- The secret speech and its aftermath -- Epilogue
Summary
"Millions of Soviet citizens were executed and millions perished in the slave labor camps of the Gulag. This book describes the fate of those citizens who were declared enemies of the people not because of what they had done but because of who they were. Stalin's repression prevented the development of a civil society in the Soviet Union"-- Provided by publisher
