Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity examines one of the twentieth century's most overlooked crimes and the literature that refused to let it be forgotten. In May 1944, Stalin's regime deported the entire Crimean Tatar people from their ancestral homeland on the Black Sea peninsula to Central Asia, a collective punishment that killed tens of thousands and was followed by decades of official silence. Rory Finnin, a professor of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Cambridge, asks how that silence was broken. His answer lies in writers outside the victimized community, in Soviet Russia, Soviet Ukraine, and Turkey, who composed poems and prose, some circulated underground and others published to controversy, that bore witness to the deportation and rallied support for the Crimean Tatars. The book's title comes from "Crimean Strolls," a poem by Boris Chichibabin that Crimean Tatar activists recited at their gatherings because it showed that others could see their suffering. Finnin also places these works in a longer cultural history of how Russians, Ukrainians, and Turks have imagined Crimea since its annexation by the Russian Empire in 1783, considering texts such as Namık Kemal's Ottoman novel Cezmi and the popular fiction of Cengiz Dağcı. His central concept, the poetics of solidarity, describes literature that cultivates empathy for others' pain by provoking a sense of shared responsibility and guilt rather than shame. Published as Russia's war on Ukraine intensified, the book illuminates the long contest over Crimea and why solidarity with its indigenous people has been central to modern Ukrainian identity.