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Cannibal Island: Death in a Siberian Gulag (Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity, 2) Hardcover - 2007
by Werth, Nicolas
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- Title Cannibal Island: Death in a Siberian Gulag (Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity, 2)
- Author Werth, Nicolas
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition New
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ
- Date 2007-04-29
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Maps, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # SKU0653005
- ISBN 9780691130835 / 0691130833
- Weight 0.92 lbs (0.42 kg)
- Dimensions 8.62 x 5.82 x 0.9 in (21.89 x 14.78 x 2.29 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1930's
- Cultural Region: Russian
- Library of Congress subjects Political prisoners - Soviet Union, Concentration camps - Soviet Union
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006051829
- Dewey Decimal Code 365.450
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From the rear cover
"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
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Citations
- Library Journal, 05/15/2007, Page 0