Bloody Saturday in the Soviet Union: Novocherkassk, 1962

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twenty-four hours from the point when the Kremlin learned what was afoot, no more than nineteen hours from the arrival of Kirilenko and Shepilov, and a still shorter time from the appearance of Kozlov, Mikoyan, and the others. Kirilenko and ...

• ISBN bar code 9780804740937 ξ1 registered September 21 2015
  
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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.

^ Samuel H. Baron (2014). Bloody Saturday in the Soviet Union: Novocherkassk, 1962 ISBN 9780804740937 (revised Oct 2024)