Reviewed by Donald Rayfield

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Was Siberia hell on earth?

An excellent study of Siberian exile under the tsars tells of punishments, executions and visitors feeding prisoners like zoo animals

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Soviet bunglers

A superbly researched book details the incompetents and murderers whom Stalin selected to carry out his atrocities

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