"It is exactly 80 years since the killing by quota began of Ukrainian, Russian and other prisoners from the notorious Solovki Labour Camp," writes HALYA COYNASH for the website of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group. "From 27 October to 4 November 1937, 1,111 prisoners were executed by the NKVD, including 289 Ukrainian writers, playwrights, … Continue reading Remember Sandarmokh & the Imprisoned Historian of the Terror
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Letter in TLS, 5 August 2017
The Times Literary Supplement (London) The Trial of Yury Dmitriev Sir, — Daniel Beer's review of two books about Stalin's terror (21 July) rightly concludes with a case that has become, to the discomfort of the authorities, a cause célèbre in Putin's Russia. For twenty-five years and more, Yury Dmitriev hunted for the sites of … Continue reading Letter in TLS, 5 August 2017