{"product_id":"fate-in-my-hands","title":"Fate in My Hands","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA striking examination of the death penalty in the Soviet Union that documents in heart-rending detail how its citizens, hopeful for a new life post-Stalin, lost faith that their transgressions could be forgiven.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom 1954 to 1991 in the Soviet Union, nearly forty thousand citizens were executed after the death penalty was reinstated as a punishment for homicide. \u003ci\u003eFate in My Hands\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamining the letters and objects the dead left behind, Skorobogatov recovers their voices and allows them to speak anew. She offers a striking portrait of life in the Soviet Union and the citizens who dreamed of new possibilities even as they faced their tragic end. Using a corpus of never-before-accessed criminal court records, \u003ci\u003eFate in My Hands \u003c\/i\u003ebrings readers not just into the police interrogation rooms, courthouses, and cells where the condemned awaited their fates, but into the homes, workplaces, and psychiatric hospitals where families and friends alike came together to pursue an elusive, bitter justice in the wake of violent tragedy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56539072037208,"sku":"9780226837314","price":40.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780226837314.jpg?v=1780437632","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/fate-in-my-hands","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}