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Healers in the hell of the gulag

Books about the gulag have overwhelmingly focused on excavating the stories of those imprisoned in the Soviet Union's vast labour camp system from the 1930s to the 1950s. Or, they have set about uncovering the individuals responsible for the suffering of the incarcerated.

Dan Healey's new book, however, places at the centre of its attention a constituency that

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