Bloody Saturday in the Soviet Union : Novocherkassk, 1962
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
Print Book, English, 2001
Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 2001
xvi, 241 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780804740937, 0804740933
45845493
List of illustrations Preface and acknowledgments Abbreviations 1. A fateful announcement 2. June 1: the strike begins 3. June 2: bloody Saturday 4. After the massacre 5. The trial 6. Anatomy of a cover-up 7. Shapsoshnikov and Siuda 8. Reconsideration and rehabilitation 9. Reflections and conclusions Appendixes Notes Bibliography Index.