1st Edition

Stalin's British Victims

By Francis Beckett Copyright 2010
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 2004, this book tells the stories of four remarkable British women, whose lives were scorched by Stalin’s purges. One was shot as a spy; one nearly died as a slave labourer in Kazakhstan; and two saw their husbands taken away to the gulag and had to spirit their small children out of the country. We think of the horrors of the middle of the twentieth century- the Holocaust in... Read more

Introuction  1. Daughter of a Revolutionary  2. The Promised Land  3. The Knock at the Door  4. From Which No Traveller Returns  5. Rosa in Kazakhstan  6. Rosa in London  7. 1956: The Prisons Yield up their Secrets  8. Rosa in Redcar  9. Shadows in a World after Communism  10. The Persecution Gene;  Source References;  Further Reading;  Index

Biography

Beckett, Francis