A Little Swine
Sheila Fitzpatrick: On Snitching, 3 November 2005
Comrade Pavlik: The Rise and Fall of a Soviet Boy Hero
by Catriona Kelly.
Granta, 352 pp., £17.99, May 2005,1 86207 747 9 Show More
by Catriona Kelly.
Granta, 352 pp., £17.99, May 2005,
“... times when it runs riot, as it did in the Soviet Union during the Purges of the late 1930s, and in France under German occupation in World War Two (as well as after the Liberation). Mass denunciation is also precipitated by moral panics, as it was during the Salem witch-hunts, or at the time of the anti-Communist hysteria in the US in the 1950s, or, more ... ”