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A Unique Piece Of Testimony From The Soviet Gulag - A Prison Guard's Private Diary, Written Between 1935-36this Is A Rare First-person Testimony Of The Hardships Of A Soviet Labour Camp, Written Up In A Couple Of Exercise Books Which Were Anonymously Donated To The Memorial Human Rights Centre In Moscow. At The Back Of The Books There Is A Blurred Snapshot And A Note, 'chistyakov, Ivan Petrovich, Repressed In 1937-38. Killed At The Front In Tula Province In 1941'.they Are All That Remains Of Ivan Chistyakov, A Senior Guard At The Baikal Amur Corrective Labour Camp (bamlag) And A Cultured And Urbane Ex-city Dweller With A Secret Nostalgia For Pre-revolutionary Russia. Chistyakov Does Not Just Record His Life In The Camp, But Narrates It; He Is A Sharp-eyed Witness And A Sympathetic, Humane And Broken Man.from Stumblingly Poetic Musings On The Bitter Landscape Of The Taiga To Matter-of-fact Grumbles About The Inefficiency Of His Stove, From Accounts Of The Brutal Conditions Of The Camp To Reflections On The Cruelty Of Loneliness, This Diary Is An Astonishing Record - A Visceral And Immediate Description Of A Place And Time Whose Repercussions Still Affect The Shape Of Modern Russia,

Author

Ivan Chistyakov

Publisher

Granta Publications

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781681774978

Subjects

Social Science, History, Biography