Collects the writings of a diverse group of people who survived imprisonment in the Gulag, recounting their experiences and relationships, and offering insight into the psychological aspects of life in the camps.
"Featuring over 130 drawings and texts by Danzig Baldaev--author of the acclaimed Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume I, II, III--this book describes the history, horror and peculiarities of the Gulag system from its inception in 1918. Baldaev's work as a prison guard a…
"Featuring over 130 drawings and texts by Danzig Baldaev--author of the acclaimed Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume I, II, III--this book describes the history, horror and peculiarities of the Gulag system from its inception in 1918. Baldaev's work as a prison guard a…
"Featuring over 130 drawings and texts by Danzig Baldaev--author of the acclaimed Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume I, II, III--this book describes the history, horror and peculiarities of the Gulag system from its inception in 1918. Baldaev's work as a prison guard a…
"Journey to the Land of the Zek and Back is a vivid, first-person account of life in the Soviet Gulag, a work that has never appeared in full before in English. It was one of the earliest published accounts of the Soviet camp system when it was published in France in 1949 and be…
"The gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society"--Publisher's description.