Eleven

Abstract

This is an unusual, perhaps even positively biased, book review. The first reason for writing from such an unusual perspective on this book is the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine. The second one, which is probably less widely under‐ stood, is that the author of this review is originally from East-Central Europe and belongs to a genera‐ tion whose parents bitterly experienced the hard version of “national” Stalinism and its con‐ sequences, especially internments.