Nearly three million people died in the forced-labour camps of Kolyma, the northeastern region of Siberia. Varlam Shalamov, considered by many to be Russia's greatest living writer, spent 17 years there and set down the Kolyma experience in powerful short stories.
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I love this book. It is an account of experiences in Russian concentration camps told as a series of short stories written like mental journal entries. This first hand account of a historical context rarely-discussed is told in poignant and distilled mini-stories. The style is sparse and the content extraordinary.
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This collection of short stories is an ideal way to examine what life was like in Stalin's concentration camps. Shalamav writes in a dispassionate manner that heightens the reader's sense of loss and helplessness. I strongly recommend this book to anyone interested in Soviet history.
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HIS NAME WAS "RUCHKIN"; there were a lot of Ruchkins in camp. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sergei Mixailovich, Far North, Andrei Mihailovich, Butyr Prison, Far Eastern Construction, Captain Tolly, Pavel Pavlovich, Isaiah Rabinovich, Roman Romanovich, Uncle Sasha, Edith Abramovna, Ivan Petrovich, The Red Tataria, Grishka Logun, Isaiah Davidovich, Pavel Ivanovich, Soviet Union, Captain Schneider, Frits David, Kolya Ruchkin, Berezniki Chemical Factory, House of the Dead, Lydia Ivanovna, Order of Lenin, Paul Krivoshei New!
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HIS NAME WAS "RUCHKIN"; there were a lot of Ruchkins in camp. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sergei Mixailovich, Far North, Andrei Mihailovich, Butyr Prison, Far Eastern Construction, Captain Tolly, Pavel Pavlovich, Isaiah Rabinovich, Roman Romanovich, Uncle Sasha, Edith Abramovna, Ivan Petrovich, The Red Tataria, Grishka Logun, Isaiah Davidovich, Pavel Ivanovich, Soviet Union, Captain Schneider, Frits David, Kolya Ruchkin, Berezniki Chemical Factory, House of the Dead, Lydia Ivanovna, Order of Lenin, Paul Krivoshei New!
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- Kolyma Tales (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) by Varlam Shalamov on 6 pages
- Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956 by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Eugene Onegin (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) by A.S. Pushkin on page 151
- Eugene Onegin (Everyman's Library Pocket Poet) by Aleksandr Pushkin on page 151
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