About the book: 2009 / The focus of a new (or, as it turns out, not so new) study by the prominent American historian Steven Cohen is the difficult process of return and rehabilitation victims of Stalin's terror. Among the issues that concern the author: the vicissitudes of this process under Khrushchev and after him, the role of the formerly repressed in the politics of the Thaw, as well as the ambiguous attitude towards the Gulag and Gulag men on the part of the authorities and society in the USSR and post-Soviet Russia.