The Years of Great Silence: The Plight of Ethnic Germans in Bolshevik Russia

Today Josh Neal returns to interview J. Otto Pohl on his landmark - but woefully under appreciated - work of historical scholarship The Years of Great Silence. Buy Ottos book here. Follow him on twitter. Buy Josh’s book here. Follow him on twitter. Follow me on Substack! From the back of the book: “This monograph provides a detailed yet concise narrative of the history of the ethnic Germans in the Russian Empire and USSR. It starts with the settlement in the Russian Empire by German col...