N.F. Bugai (Bougai is unfortunately one of the many spelling errors in this work) is the foremost experts in the world on Stalin's deportations. Bugai has done more than any other individual to make the formerly hidden information on this subject available. He has used his access to the Soviet archives, particularly those of the NKVD (Peoples Commissariat of Internal Affairs) and MVD (Ministry of Internal Affairs) to great effect in this cause. This is Bugai's only work in English and it greatly resembles his Russian classic *L. Beria - I. Stalinu: "Soglasno vashemu ukazaniiu.." (Moscow: "AIRO XX", 1995). It is a very detailed collection of narratives dealing with the series of mass deportations conducted by the Soviet regime from the 1920s through the 1940s. Most of the chapters describe Stalin's wholesale deportation of a single nationality such as the Koreans, Kalmyks, Karachays, or Balkars. Each of these chapters provides a wealth of statistical and qualitative information on the conduct of the deportations and the conditions these nationalities experienced while exiled to Siberia and Central Asia. Unfortunately, unlike *Soglasno,* this work has no chapter on the Crimean Tatars. Nor does it extensively cover the Soviet Germans as *Soglasno* does. Instead it only has a brief chapter on the mobilization of ethnic Germans in the Soviet Far East into the labor army (forced labor brigades). The hundreds of thousands of Soviet Germans living outside the Far East sent to the labor army are not covered in this book. Neither are the more than 1.2 million Soviet Germans sent to special settlements. It does, however, include a whole chapter on the Ingrian Finns which is not found in *Soglasno.* The information in this chapter greatly enhanced my understanding of this particular operation. The information on the Finns in *Soglasno* is so fragmentary that it is easy to draw very different conclusions from the two works. The grammer and spelling are also quite poor. One suspects that the work was translated from Russian to English by somebody who is not a professional translator. The book does not identify any translator. Regardless of of this flaw, the book is one of the very few works of its kind in English. It provides much of the very detailed information recently discovered by Bugai in the Soviet archives. Even if you can read Russian, the information in this book not found in *Soglasno* makes it well worth owning for those interested in the subject.