Bloody Saturday in the Soviet Union

Bloody Saturday in the Soviet Union
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 292
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ISBN-10 : 0804740933
ISBN-13 : 9780804740937
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Book Synopsis Bloody Saturday in the Soviet Union by : Samuel H. Baron

Download or read book Bloody Saturday in the Soviet Union written by Samuel H. Baron and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first complete story, long hidden by the Soviet Union, of the attack by government forces on striking workers in 1962, resulting in 21 dead and hundreds of others wounded or imprisoned. Only with the advent of glasnost in the 1980s did the tight lid of secrecy placed on the entire episode by the Soviets begin slowly to lift.


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