Russia's Nightmare: The Forgotten Holocaust.
Andrew J Baker MA
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- 19th September 2024
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- 20Th Century | Russia Gulag Stalin | 1066
Between 1924 and 1953 millions, perished in the Soviet Union’s network of concentration camps – the Gulag. This is the searing story of the ‘crimes’, humiliation, suffering and death of these ‘Enemies of the People’.
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Andrew is a fluent, engaging and entertaining speaker with a particular interest in social, cultural and political change at home and abroad and the ideas and forces which have shaped today’s world. He gives his audiences insights into the times through which they have lived with a sharp eye for detail and anecdote. Audiences invariably comment on the warmth, clarity, humour and accessibility of his presentations.
Andrew is a regular and highly acclaimed cruise ship lecturer who also gives talks and presentations on a huge range of subjects to audiences across the country and to schools.
His incisive character portraits of many very different men and women whose extraordinary lives have shaped today’s world, are uniformly vivid and compelling while his insights into contemporary social and cultural trends and his ability to enable audiences to see the present within the context of the past, have been widely praised.
Andrew taught in state and independent schools for over 40 years and is the author of a best-selling book on Contemporary British Politics. Drawing on his experience of over 22 years as a Grammar School Headmaster, he recently published a further volume on Education and the Pursuit of Values: A Headmaster’s Reflections. He is now a freelance lecturer.
Audiences require no prior knowledge to find these presentations both moving and unforgettable. There are opportunities here to sit back, reflect, reminisce, remember, laugh and see our own times more clearly.
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