The Minister and the Massacres, a 1986 book by Nikolai Tolstoy,Tolstoy, 1986 further publicized the issue, but it made various dubious claims about the repatriations that were roundly criticized by various historians and authors, although it brought attention, more generally, to the persistent distortion of the story, and to the issue of historians trusting contemporary records and purported eyewitness.Musgrove (Ed.) 2009, p. 70Rees, 2007.
