Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin's Special Settlements

One of Stalin's most heinous acts was the ruthless repression of millions of peasants in the early 1930s, an act that established the very foundations of the gulag. Solzhenitsyn barely touched upon this brutal episode in his magisterial Gulag Archipelago and subsequent writers passed over the subject in silence. Lynne Viola reveals for the first time how, in one of the most egregious episodes of Soviet repression, Stalin drove two million peasants into internal exile, to work as forced labore…