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Into the whirlwind.(From the Gulag to the Killing Fields: Personal Accounts of Political Violence and Repression in Communist States)(Book review)
Paul Hollander, editor From the Gulag to the Killing Fields: Personal Accounts of Political Violence and Repression in Communist States. ISI Books, 750 pages, $35
Paul Hollander once asked a class of three hundred students at the University of Massachusetts how many of them had learned anything in high school about repression in Communist countries. Not a single hand was raised. How many had heard of the "Gulag" the system of prisons and camps strewn across the Soviet Union for the duration of Communist rule? Only four. It is with good reason that the distinguished historian Alain Besancon refers to "forgotten Communism" or that the Sinologist Arthur Waldron ...
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