political persecution

Uses three incidents of torture in the Western world to demonstrate how ordinary people can become torturers.

Mayme and her family with other Finnish Americans migrated to Russia in 1934 with the promise of a worker's paradise.

Examines what author Paul Preston terms "the Spanish Holocaust", charting twentieth-century Spain under General Franco in which hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women, and children were systematically wiped out.

Details Stalin's reign as the leader of the Soviet Union, focusing on his network of concentration camps, the Gulag.

Explores the impact Hitler and the Nazis had on the people of Germany, discussing how different groups reacted to Hitler's demands.

Chronicles the life of Margaret Werner, focusing on the years she spent living in Russia with her family under brutal dictator Joseph Stalin.

By the middle of 1933 the democracy of the Weimar Republic had been transformed into the police state of the Third Reich, led by Adolf Hitler. In six years Germany found itself radically reshaped and prepared for the war that began on September 1, 1939.

Ken Wiwa chronicles the life of his father, Nigerian writer and critic of military rule Ken Saro-Wiwa.

Examines acts of genocide, crimes against humanity, and other instances of extreme persecution, with an emphasis on events taking place in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in El Salvador and Guatemala.