'[Stephen F. Cohen] helps us better understand Russia's enigmatic present and better appreciate what to look for as it lurches into the future.' - The New York Times; 'In The Victims Return, Stephen Cohen tells of one of the greatest human tragedies of the twentieth century, and he has told it powerfully.' - Robert Conquest, author of The Great Terror; 'An authoritative, engrossing account of Russians who, having survived the Great Terror and the Gulag, found themselves living in the politically uncertain times of Russian reform.' - E. L. Doctorow; 'With first-hand accounts from countless victims, Cohen's work places him in the rare position of being both intellectual observer and active participant in the political history of modern Russia.' - VanityFair.com; 'The Victims Return should be read by anyone who seeks a better understanding of key social issues and a national psychology that have defined Russia's recent past. Because they continue to define it today.' - The Moscow News; 'Stephen F. Cohen is far and away the most original, creative, informed, and insightful observer writing on Russian affairs today. A pioneering historian and a fine political scientist and journalist - Cohen writes with clarity, elegance, and power.' - Alexander Rabinowitch, author of The Bolsheviks Come to Power; 'A striking memoir ... Cohen engages fully - and personally - with the debate on the way [Russians] continue to grapple with their Stalinist legacy.' - The New Yorker; 'Stephen Cohen brings to life the horror, shock, and despair of Stalin's gulags ... While many nonfiction books of this genre remain locked on Stalin, his mind, and temperament, Cohen shows us Stalin's national horror from the viewpoint of victims' family members.' - New York Journal of Books
Prologue Chapter 1: The History of a Book Chapter 2: Liberation Chapter 3: The Victims Return Chapter 4: The Rise and Fall of ‘Khruschev’s Zeks’ Chapter 5: The Victims Vanish, and Return Again Epilogue: Stalin’s Victims and Russia’s Future
During the Stalin years, it is thought that more innocent men, women and children perished than in Hitler's destruction of the European Jews. Many millions died in Stalin's Gulag of torture prisons and forced-labour camps, yet others survived and were freed after his death in 1953. This book tells the story of the survivors.
Stephen F. Cohen is a leading scholar of Soviet and post-Soviet Russia, media commentator and author of several widely acclaimed books. He is professor of Russian Studies and History at New York University and Emeritus Professor of Politics at Princeton. His books include 'Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography; Rethinking the Soviet Experience; Sovieticus'; 'Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist Russia'; and 'Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives'. Cohen is married to Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation, where he is a contributing editor.
'[Cohen] helps us better understand Russia's enigmatic present and better appreciate what to look for as it lurches into the future.' - The New York Times '[Cohen] brings all his personal passion, loyalty and exuberance to his subject.' - Mary Dejevsky, The Independent 'In The Victims Return, Stephen Cohen tells of one of the greatest human tragedies of the twentieth century, and he has told it powerfully.' - Robert Conquest 'A striking memoir - Cohen engages fully - and personally - with the debate on the way [Russians] continue to grapple with their Stalinist legacy.' - The New Yorker 'The Victims Return should be read by anyone who seeks a better understanding of key social issues and a national psychology that have defined Russia's recent past. Because they continue to define it today.' - The Moscow News
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