Political historian Stephen F. Cohen spent the better part of 35 years researching and writing his latest book, The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag After Stalin. Part historical account, part personal memoir, Cohen’s book chronicles the post-liberation experience of the prisoners who managed to survive Stalin’s brutal Gulag, from their release in the late 1950s to the present. With first-hand accounts from countless victims, Cohen’s work places him in the rare position of being both intellectual observer and active participant in the political history of modern Russia. A professor of Russian Studies and History at Nyu and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University, Cohen is also a frequent commentator on television and a contributor to The Nation, where his wife Katrina vanden Heuvel is editor and publisher. The author recently sat down with Vf Daily to discuss The Victims Return, being tailed by the K.G.B., and his friendship with Gorbachev.
- 11/8/2010
- Vanity Fair
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