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What Really Happened to Children in the Gulags?

The Inside Story.
Children of the Gulag
By Cathy A. Frierson and Semyon S. Vilensky
(Yale University Press, 496 pp., $55)

Several years ago, a friend who helped me to find my way around the Russian State Archives in Moscow asked if I would like to meet another woman who was also working there. She was not doing research for a book, and she was not a scholar. Instead, she was indulging her curiosity and her nostalgia. Forty years earlier, she had worked as a baby nurse in a children’s home inside one of Stalin’s labor camps. Now she wanted to find out what had happened to some of the people she had known there, to jog her memory of names and dates.
A meeting was arranged, and we talked for perhaps an hour—without

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