The book is dedicated to a little-known page of Soviet state terror, which was previously out of sight of historians. It is a question of re-punishment of political prisoners of the Gulag, who were sentenced to life imprisonment in accordance with the illegal Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of February 21, 1948. In everyday speech they were united by the definition of "repeaters". A large body of archival sources, first introduced into scientific circulation, provides an opportunity to get acquainted with the vicissitudes of the procedure of identifying and stigmatizing these people, to understand the real meaning of little-known definitions: "minus", "peresidchyk" and others. Through memoirs, documents, epistolary of repeaters, the reader can go with them all the way from arrest to rehabilitation, to feel the moral and psychological state of people forced even after the next atonement for uncommitted crimes to death to look back.
