No one on earth would purchase a book with such a vacuous title and even on campus, it will be read only if it's on a required reading-list.

The recollections of nine Estonian women who did or didn't get shipped to Siberia are as worthy as any human story. Nonetheless, such a basic, grisly theme hardly calls for "scholarly interpretations from a variety of perspectives."

There are only two significant perspectives here: that of the victims and that of the victimizers. Some of the (surviving) victims have spoken. Now, we need to hear from the victimizers -- from Estonian communists (such as Marju Lauristin's father and grandfather) -- particularly, from the communists who selected these women for transport to Siberia. That would be an illuminating story and most of us would be able to understand it without "scholarly interpretations from a variety of perspectives".