Freedom and Terror in the Donbas : A Ukrainian-Russian Borderland, 1870s 1990s

Hiroaki Kuromiya
Cambridge University Press
9780521526081
0-521-52608-6

This is a book about the steppe frontier land on the border of Ukraine and Russia. A little-known former Cossack land, the Donbas remained a haven for fugitives, providing freedom to whoever needed it..

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As a result, Stalin's Terror was extraordinarily harsh in the Donbas. Drawing on much new information from formerly closed archives in Ukraine and Russia, the book paints a detailed yet panoramic picture of the tumultuous history of the Donbas and analyzes critical events in modern Ukrainian and Russian history from a regional perspective.