Khrushchev’s Cold Summer: Gulag Returnees, Crime, and the Fate of Reform After Stalin (Cornell University Press), by Miriam Dobson

Stalin’s policies led to the imprisonment of millions, and when those policies were denounced by his successor, Khrushchev, everyone expected those millions to be freed—but not everyone was happy with the idea. Miriam Dobson closely examines little-known aspects of what followed through meticulous archival research, unearthing...