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The Unquiet Ghost

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An in-depth exploration of the legacy of Joseph Stalin on the former Soviet Union, by the author of King Leopold’s Ghost.

Although some twenty million people died during Stalin’s reign of terror, only with the advent of glasnost did Russians begin to confront their memories of that time. In 1991, Adam Hochschild spent nearly six months in Russia talking to gulag survivors, retired concentration camp guards, and countless others. The result is a riveting evocation of a country still haunted by the ghost of Stalin.

A New York Times Notable Book

“An important contribution to our awareness of the former Soviet Union’s harrowing past and unsettling present.” —Los Angeles Times 

“A perceptive, intelligent book demonstrating that the significance of the gulag transcends the confines of one country and one generation.” —The New York Times Book Review

“This probing and sensitive book…casts striking new light upon the Russian past and present.” —The Washington Post Book World 

“The voices [Hochschild] has recorded, the relics he has seen, are haunting—and the raw material of a terrific book.” —David Remnick, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lenin’s Tomb

“No other work has brought home the full horror of this monstrous dictator’s rule than this close-up account.” —Daniel Schorr, former senior news analyst, National Public Radio


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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Kindle Book

  • Release date: June 11, 2020

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  • ISBN: 9780547524979
  • Release date: June 11, 2020

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  • ISBN: 9780547524979
  • File size: 10708 KB
  • Release date: June 11, 2020

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History Nonfiction

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English

An in-depth exploration of the legacy of Joseph Stalin on the former Soviet Union, by the author of King Leopold’s Ghost.

Although some twenty million people died during Stalin’s reign of terror, only with the advent of glasnost did Russians begin to confront their memories of that time. In 1991, Adam Hochschild spent nearly six months in Russia talking to gulag survivors, retired concentration camp guards, and countless others. The result is a riveting evocation of a country still haunted by the ghost of Stalin.

A New York Times Notable Book

“An important contribution to our awareness of the former Soviet Union’s harrowing past and unsettling present.” —Los Angeles Times 

“A perceptive, intelligent book demonstrating that the significance of the gulag transcends the confines of one country and one generation.” —The New York Times Book Review

“This probing and sensitive book…casts striking new light upon the Russian past and present.” —The Washington Post Book World 

“The voices [Hochschild] has recorded, the relics he has seen, are haunting—and the raw material of a terrific book.” —David Remnick, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lenin’s Tomb

“No other work has brought home the full horror of this monstrous dictator’s rule than this close-up account.” —Daniel Schorr, former senior news analyst, National Public Radio


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