An Excerpt from WHERE THE WEST ENDS

The following is a previously unpublished excerpt from my forthcoming book, Where the West Ends.

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“The forced collectivization of agriculture decreed by the Soviet master and his party likely cost the lives of more people than perished in all countries as a result of the First World War.”- Michael Marrus

“They had gone over the country like a swarm of locusts and taken away everything edible; they had shot or exiled thousands of peasants, sometimes whole villages; they had reduced some of the m...