Stalin’s Liquidation Game
the unlikely case of oleksandr shums'kyi, his survival in soviet prison, and his subsequent arcane assassination
$139.90
- Paperback
350 pages
- Release Date
28 January 2026
Summary
Millions of innocent people were arrested in Stalin’s Soviet Union during the 1930s in different waves of mass repression. Under violent interrogation, many were forced to confess to crimes they did not commit. Rather than save their lives, as the interrogators had promised, confession was usually the last step to their execution. Very few of those arrested eventually refused to confess.
Oleksandr Shums´kyi, the Ukrainian Marxist revolutionary, was one of the most important but least …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780674292550 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0674292553 |
| Author: | Filip Slaveski, Yuri Shapoval |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
| Imprint: | Harvard University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 350 |
| Release Date: | 28 January 2026 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
| Series: | Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies |
About The Author
Filip Slaveski
Filip Slaveski is the author of Remaking Ukraine after World War II and The Soviet Occupation of Germany. He is Senior Lecturer in Russian, Soviet, and East European History at the Australian National University.
Yuri Shapoval is Professor at the Institute for Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
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