The Nation Killers: The Soviet Deportation Of Nationalities
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A landmark work of Cold War history, The Nation Killers: The Soviet Deportation of Nationalities chronicles one of the most brutal and systematically concealed atrocities of the twentieth century — the forced mass deportation of entire ethnic groups under Stalin's regime. Robert Conquest meticulously details the uprooting of peoples such as the Chechens, Crimean Tatars, Volga Germans, and Kalmyks, who were torn from their homelands and transported in catastrophic conditions to remote regions of Siberia and Central Asia. Written with the precision of a scholar and the moral urgency of a witness to injustice, the work argues that these deportations were not mere wartime expediencies but deliberate acts of ethnic annihilation designed to erase national identities from the Soviet map. Conquest draws on survivor testimonies, declassified documents, and demographic data to illustrate the staggering human cost — hundreds of thousands perished from cold, starvation, and disease. An essential and unflinching account, it stands as a vital contribution to the historical record of Soviet totalitarianism and the politics of genocide.
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Edition: First Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good , price clipped
Markings: No markings
A landmark work of Cold War history, The Nation Killers: The Soviet Deportation of Nationalities chronicles one of the most brutal and systematically concealed atrocities of the twentieth century — the forced mass deportation of entire ethnic groups under Stalin's regime. Robert Conquest meticulously details the uprooting of peoples such as the Chechens, Crimean Tatars, Volga Germans, and Kalmyks, who were torn from their homelands and transported in catastrophic conditions to remote regions of Siberia and Central Asia. Written with the precision of a scholar and the moral urgency of a witness to injustice, the work argues that these deportations were not mere wartime expediencies but deliberate acts of ethnic annihilation designed to erase national identities from the Soviet map. Conquest draws on survivor testimonies, declassified documents, and demographic data to illustrate the staggering human cost — hundreds of thousands perished from cold, starvation, and disease. An essential and unflinching account, it stands as a vital contribution to the historical record of Soviet totalitarianism and the politics of genocide.
