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Gulag Letters (Yale-Hoover Series on Authoritarian Regimes) by Formakov, Arseniĭ; Johnson, Emily D. is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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A poignant collection of letters written by the Latvian poet, novelist, and newspaper editor Arsenii Formakov while interned in Soviet labor camps Emily Johnson has translated and edited a fascinating collection of letters written by Arsenii Formakov, a Latvian Russian poet, novelist, and journalist, during two terms in Soviet labor camps, 1940 to 1947 in Kraslag and 1949 to 1955 in Kamyshlag and Ozerlag. This correspondence, which Formakov mailed home to his family in Riga, provides readers with a firsthand account of the workings of the Soviet penal system and testifies to the hardships of daily life for Latvian prisoners in the Gulag.

Author

Formakov, Arseniĭ; Johnson, Emily D.

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300209310

Subjects

History, Literary Collections, Literary Fiction