Download or read book Stalin's Great Purge written by Noah Berlatsky and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2012-10-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides historical background on Stalin's purges and explores controversies surrounding the purges. It offers first hand accounts from those who experienced the effects of Stalin's purges. One account describes a Ukrainian childhood during the famine while another essayist recalls childhood under Stalin's terror. Nikita Khruschev decries Stalin and the purges. A young Russian woman remembers the Gulag. Your readers will be forever changed by this compelling book.