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From: Elizabeth Morrow Clark <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 9:06 PM
Subject: Bloody Saturday
From: Borrero Mauricio [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 10:59 AM
There was a discussion earlier this summer about Western literature on
post-Stalin uprisings and riots in the Soviet Union, which some of you may
have missed. An essential source is Samuel Baron's new book, _Bloody
Saturday in the Soviet Union: Novocherkassk, 1962_, which was recently
published by Stanford University Press. This is the first book-length study
of events Solzhenitsyn called "a turning point in the history of modern
Russia." Baron's work treats the background of the great strike, the
massacre, the principal trial that followed, and the coverup. It also
considers the reexamination of the events in the last years of the Gorbachev
era, the ultimae rehabilitation of the victims, and the long-term
consequences of the Novocherkassk episode.
Mauricio Borrero
St. John's University
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