"Scholars have written extensively about Stalinism, yet far less of what happened to the victimized people after the dictator's death. In this state of the art and sensitive collection of essays, leading specialists offer sobering glimpses of the so-called post-Stalin thaw. These studies are a sequel to those in the editors' Stalinist Terror in Eastern Europe. Both volumes should make perfect textbooks for graduate and undergraduate studies, though they deserve to reach an audience well beyond academia." - Robert Gellately, Earl Ray Beck Professor of History, Florida State University, USA
"This excellent book is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the often complex process of restoring justice after Stalin's death. An international research team provides a pioneering comparative study of the vicissitudes of the rehabilitation process which reaches completion only after the fall of communism in 1989-91." - Anthony Kemp-Welch, Reader Emeritus in History, University of East Anglia, UK