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Stephen F. Cohen's The Victims Return follows Gulag survivors after Stalin's death in 1953: their release, their return to Soviet society and their long fight for justice. Cohen draws on thirty years of interviews with former inmates and on newly available Soviet material, setting individual stories against the political conflicts over the terror and its perpetrators. It is history told through people rather than policy, and it suits readers who want the human aftermath of the Gulag rather than a camp memoir or a top-down account of Stalinism. Among Gulag books it stands out for covering the post-1953 decades, a period most survivor memoirs and camp histories leave out.
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Reviewers treat the book as a valuable, readable account of a neglected period, praising the survivor testimony and the portrait of post-Stalin politics. Some historians question Cohen's political framing and his handling of the terror's causes.
This book tells the story of the people who survived Stalin's Gulag, the system of prisons and forced-labor camps in the Soviet Union. Many millions died there. Others were freed after Stalin's death in 1953.
Historian Stephen F. Cohen came to know many former Gulag inmates during frequent trips to Moscow over a period of thirty years. The book draws on first-hand interviews with survivors and on newly available materials.
It follows the survivors from their liberation and return to Soviet society through their long struggle to rebuild their lives and obtain justice. The account spans more than fifty years. It combines individual stories with the political conflicts in society and in the Kremlin over the victims of the terror and the people who had victimized them.
