Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity

by Rory Finnin

In the spring of 1944, Stalin deported the Crimean Tatars, a small Sunni Muslim nation, from their ancestral homeland on the Black Sea peninsula. The gravity of this event, which ultimately claimed the lives of tens of thousands of victims, was shrouded in secrecy after the Second World War. What broke the silence in Soviet Russia, Soviet Ukraine, and the Republic of Turkey were works of literature. These texts of poetry and prose - some passed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 148750781X
• ISBN13: 9781487507817
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.1"