“Fate in My Hands: The Death Penalty in the Soviet Union,” a Book Talk by Yana Skorobogatov

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: The Death Penalty in the Soviet Union 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. This event is part of the CREECA Lecture Series.