In this book, Pleysier and Vinogradov explore the question that millions of Soviet citizens asked themselves in the late 1930s and in the years after World War II-"Why have I been exiled to prison?" Through the stories of former prisoners, the reader will understand what it was …
In this book, Pleysier and Vinogradov explore the question that millions of Soviet citizens asked themselves in the late 1930s and in the years after World War II-"Why have I been exiled to prison?" Through the stories of former prisoners, the reader will understand what it was …
In this book, Pleysier and Vinogradov explore the question that millions of Soviet citizens asked themselves in the late 1930s and in the years after World War II-"Why have I been exiled to prison?" Through the stories of former prisoners, the reader will understand what it was …
Between 1953 and 1960, the government of the Soviet Union released hundreds of thousands of prisoners from the Gulag as part of an attempt to redress the excesses of the Stalin era. In this work, the author explores the impact of these returnees, both political and criminal, on …
Drawing on his own experiences before, during, and after his 11 years of incarceration and exile, Solzhenitsyn reveals with torrential narrative and dramatic power the entire apparatus of Soviet repression. Through truly Shakespearean portraits of its victims, we encounter the s…
Drawing on his own experiences before, during, and after his 11 years of incarceration and exile, Solzhenitsyn reveals with torrential narrative and dramatic power the entire apparatus of Soviet repression. Through truly Shakespearean portraits of its victims, we encounter the s…