Cannibal Island: Death in a Siberian Gulag

by Nicolas Werth

Book Overview

A searing historical account of a tragic episode of the Stalinist terror

During the spring of 1933, Stalin's police rounded up nearly one hundred thousand people as part of the Soviet regime's "cleansing" of Moscow and Leningrad and deported them to Siberia. Many of the victims were sent to labor camps, but ten thousand of them were dumped in a remote wasteland and left to fend for themselves. Cannibal Island reveals the shocking,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691130833
• ISBN13: 9780691130835
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"