Fate in My Hands: The Death Penalty in the Soviet Union

Fate in My Hands: The Death Penalty in the Soviet Union documents in striking, heart-rending detail how Soviet citizens, hopeful for a new life post-Stalin, lost faith that their transgressions could be forgiven. From 1954 to 1991 in the Soviet Union, nearly forty thousand citizens were executed after the death penalty was reinstated as a punishment for homicide. Fate in My Hands introduces readers to the many citizens in this period—women and men of all ages and backgrounds—who found themselves on death row and tried to escape it in the only way available to them: asking for forgiveness. Exam