Within the Whirlwind
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| Rating | : | 4.60 (746 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0156976498 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 448 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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Language Notes Text: English, Russian (translation)
"Gripping book" according to Merica Saint John. This is the kind of book I not only read but digest, highlight, underline, etc. Very informative about life under Stalin.. Meaghan said The second part of two, and just as good as the first part. A solid sequel to Ginzburg's first book, Journey into the Whirlwind. I had been unaware of this second book when I read the first and wondered why the first book had ended so abruptly; now I realize these books are really meant to be two volumes of the same work. I suppose they need not neces. One of the most harrowing descriptions of the Stalin purges Eugenia Ginsburg was sentenced to ten years imprisonment in 1937 on a false charge of terrorism at the height of the Stalin purges. In her first book 'Into the whirlwind' she describes her arrest, her interrogation, her mockery of a trial and two years in solitary confinement in prison. She w
A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book. This book continues the narrative of Ginzburg's nightmarish eighteen-year survival of Soviet prisons and labor camps, following the Stalinist purges of 1937. Introduction by Heinrich Böll
. Incredibly, Mrs. Professor Nikolai Naumovich Elvov, who had written the offending passage, also happened to be the author of a source book on Tartar history. Ginzburg was arrested and denounced as a Trotskyite and counter-revolutionary because she had failed to write a review for her publication denouncing Elvov's T