Dneprovets, A.

Ezhovshchina: Zaby't nel'zia... [The Yezhov Era: Must Not Be Forgotten...]

Munich: TSOPE, 1958. Item #1476

54, [2] pages; 16.8 x 12 cm. Very good copy.

This émigré publication documents the brutal political repression in the Soviet Union under Nikolai Ezhov's leadership of the NKVD. Drawing on eyewitness testimony and émigré accounts, the author outlines the "methods of interrogation and prison regime," which reached "unprecedented forms of senseless cruelty." “Measures of physical influence” took on “the most refined sadistic forms.” While previously prisoners were simply beaten, now there were “inventive interrogators” who devised new ways of torture and abuse. The work condemns the terror and the legacy of the Stalinist purges, urging remembrance and accountability.

Price: $150.00