
Nicolas Werth (born 1950 in Paris) is a French historian. Werth is a scholar of communist studies. He is the son of Alexander Werth, a Russian born British journalist and writer who lived in the USSR during World War II. Nicolas Werth has taught abroad (Minsk, New York, Moscow, Shanghai). He served as Cultural Attaché at the French Embassy in Moscow during perestroika from 1985 to 1989. Werth jo...
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A disturbing chapter in Russian history is explored in this documentary. In 1933, Joseph Stalin sent 6000 "unwanted" citizens of Moscow and Leningrad to a desolate Siberian island - with no food or clothes to speak of. Decades later this documentary returns to the island.
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