Stalin's Terror to be documented by first-hand accounts on PBS (02/21/99)

Stalin's Terror to be documented by first-hand accounts on PBS

PARSIPPANY, N.J. - During Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's regime, an estimated 20 million people perished in a series of purges, arrests, executions, artificial famines and deportations to desolate regions and forced labor camps.

A major PBS special, "Stolen Years," looks at Stalin's terror through the eyes of 11 purge victims. The one-hour special, a co-production of the Blackwell Corp. and The Evans-McCan Group in association with South Carolina Educational Television, features first-hand accounts from survivors of Stalin's gulag camps.

Introduced by renowned historian Robert Conquest, the story is illustrated through the use of archival footage and still photographs from government archives, museums and private collections - many never before seen in the West.

The interviews from the documentary were conducted by Vladimir Klimenko; the film is directed by Bruce Young and produced by Jennifer Law Young, founders of the Lexington, Va.-based Evans-McCan Group.

"Stolen Years" airs in the New York/New Jersey area on Tuesday, March 2, at 10 p.m. on WNET, Channel 13; it will be shown in The Washington and Virginia area on Thursday, March 4, at 10 p.m. on PBS. Check local listings for air time and dates in other areas.

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