Victor Sebestyen

The missing millions

Victor Sebestyen is haunted by some newly translated eye-witness accounts, written by both captor and captives, detailing the horrors of the Gulag

  • Gulag Voices: An Anthology

    edited by Anne Applebaum

    Yale,, pp. 224

  • Gulag Boss: A Soviet Memoir

    Fyodor Mochulsky

    OUP, pp. 272

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