Punished Peoples

“A valuable and absorbing account. . . .Impressive in scope, careful in documentation, rich in fact, the study incorporates previously unpublished Soviet materials on its subject and is salted with the author’s personal memories as a Red Army officer at the time. I hope we shall see the day when the Russian original can be published in Russia itself.” —Robert C. Tucker In late 1943 and early 1944, after the Nazi invasion of Russia had been turned back, Soviet troops descended upon the Cauca...