Helen and Kurt Wolff Books: Journey Into the Whirlwind (Paperback)

from wandering_star

Eugenia Ginzburg was an academic who was caught up in Stalin's purges. This book is her memoir of the time of her accusation, trial and first few years in prison, at first near to Moscow (and in solitary confinement) and then by prison train to a labour camp in the Russian Far East. What happens ...

from DieFledermaus

Evgenia Ginzburg's harrowing memoir of her experience in Soviet prisons and camps during the 1930's is a powerful and compelling read. She relates the story of her arrest, trial, life in a series of prisons culminating in two years of (supposedly) solitary confinement in Yaroslavl, then her trans...

from arubabookwoman

This is a memoir of Ginzburg's life as a loyal Communist, and then her arrest, interrogation, and transport to the Siberian gulag during Stalin's reign of terror. She tells us her story without a hint of self-pity, yet she conveys the immensity of the tragedy that has overcome her, her family and...

from wandering_star

Eugenia Ginzburg was an academic who was caught up in Stalin's purges. This book is her memoir of the time of her accusation, trial and first few years in prison, at first near to Moscow (and in solitary confinement) and then by prison train to a labour camp in the Russian Far East. What happens ...

from Renzomalo

A somewhat difficult read but a fascinating glimpse into Stalin's gulags and prisons and an expose' on real torture. No culturally appropriate meals here... Or Bibles, or prayer rugs, or much of anything except misery. It is then astounding to learn that those incarcerated by Stalin, whose lives ...