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050	0	0	_aDK267 _b.H597 1994
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100	1		_aHochschild, Adam
245	1	4	_aThe unquiet ghost _b: Russians remember Stalin _c/ Adam Hochschild.
260			_aNew York, N.Y., U.S.A. _b: Viking _c, 1994.
300			_axxvii, 304 p. _b: ill., map _c; 24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 289-296) and index.
520			_aHochschild spent the first half of 1991 in the former Soviet Union interviewing gulag survivors, former camp guards and members of the secret police, writers, artists, human rights activists, neo-Stalinists and ordinary citizens about their opinions of Stalin. This haunting and powerful report reveals that the dictator's legacy persists in widespread denial, amnesia, numbness, and pervasive fear among people whose lives were scarred by mass arrests, killings and Stalin's spy network. Hochschild traveled to Kolyma, site of the deadliest camps; he interviewed Valentin Berezhkov, who was Stalin's English-language interpreter and privy to the regime's inner circle; he visited Moscow's KGB archives and was given files of American victims of the gulag. Comparing Stalin's purges to the witch craze of early medieval Europe, Hochschild attributes this ``self-inflicted genocide'' partly to Russians' age-old habits of scapegoating and passive obedience.
600	1	0	_aStalin, Joseph _d, 1879-1953
651		0	_aSoviet Union _x--History _z--1925-1953
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