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Journey Into the Whirlwind

by Eugenia Ginzburg

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Both witness to and victim of Stalin’s reign of terror, a courageous woman tells the story of her harrowing eighteen-year odyssey through Russia’s prisons and labor camps. Translated by Paul Stevenson and Max Hayward. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

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erwilmer, October 28, 2006 (view all comments by erwilmer)
For someone who has never been immersed in many of the tragedies that went on in Russia, Germany and surrounding lands during the time that Stalin was in power, I believe this memoir served telling about the attrocities that occured. The unique point of view, of a 30 year old wife, academian, and mother of two being taken away from all that she knew because of the finger turning witch hunt to find anti-communists, shows the progression of that era. From first those who are considered propagandists, to those who know them, to those in power who were running the local operations. It is one of the best books that I have read in a while, a wonderful change from a Gusdorf esque theory of what an autobiography should be.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780156027519
Translator:
Stevenson, Paul
Translator:
Hayward, Max
Translator:
Stevenson, Paul
Translator:
Hayward, Max
Author:
Ginzburg, Eugenia
Author:
Ginzburg, Eugenia Semyonovna
Publisher:
Harvest Books
Subject:
Biography
Subject:
Sociology - General
Subject:
Historical - General
Subject:
Soviet Union
Subject:
Political prisoners
Subject:
Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union
Subject:
Political prisoners -- Soviet Union.
Subject:
Soviet Union Social conditions.
Series:
Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
Publication Date:
November 2002
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
432
Dimensions:
8.02x5.34x1.02 in. .88 lbs.
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