Novocherkassk Massacre - in Fiction

In Fiction

The massacre is dramatized in Francis Spufford's "Red Plenty".

During a politburo scene in The Devil's Alternative by author Frederick Forsyth, the KGB chief, asked if he could suppress riots during famine, responds that the KGB could suppress ten, even twenty Novocherkassk's; but not fifty - intentionally using the example to highlight how serious the difficulties would be that the Soviet Union finds itself in the novel.

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