Publisher's Synopsis
For more than half a century official historians of the Soviet Union hid the truth about one of the worst genocides in history: the enforced collectivization of agriculture in Kazakhstan. A devastating famine was deliberately induced in which more than one million people died - almost half the population. Mikhailov's exhaustive research collects together oral testimony and archival documents to expose the sinister role of Goloshchekin, the architect of the disastrous plan.
