Journey into the Whirlwind
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Journey into the Whirlwind

The Critically Acclaimed Memoir of Stalin's Reign of Terror

  1. 432 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Journey into the Whirlwind

The Critically Acclaimed Memoir of Stalin's Reign of Terror

About this book

A woman's true account of eighteen years as a Soviet prisoner: "Not even Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich matches it."— The New York Times Book Review
In the late 1930s, Eugenia Ginzburg was a wife and mother, a schoolteacher and writer, and a longtime loyal Communist Party member. But like millions of others during Stalin's reign of terror, she was arrested—on trumped-up charges of being a Trotskyist terrorist counter-revolutionary—and sentenced to prison.
With sharp detail and an indefatigable spirit, Ginzburg recounts her arrest and the eighteen harrowing years she endured in Soviet prisons and labor camps, including two in solitary confinement. Her memoir is "a compelling personal narrative of survival" ( The New York Times Book Review)—and one of the most important documents of Stalin's brutal regime.
"Deeply significant…intensely personal and passionately felt."— Time
"Probably the best account that has ever been published of…the prison and camp empire of the Stalin era."— Book World
Translated by Paul Stevenson and Max Hayward

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Information

Publisher
Mariner Books
Year
2020
eBook ISBN
9780547541013
Topic
History
Subtopic
Russian History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Contents
  3. Copyright
  4. Epigraph
  5. Map of Journey
  6. Part One
  7. A telephone call at dawn
  8. The red-haired professor
  9. Prelude
  10. The snowball
  11. There’s no one so silly as a clever man
  12. My last year
  13. Life counted in minutes
  14. The year 1937 begins
  15. Expelled from the Party
  16. That day
  17. Captain Vevers
  18. The cellars at “Black Lake”
  19. The investigators have conclusive evidence
  20. Stick and carrot
  21. The walls come to life
  22. “Can you forgive me?”
  23. The “conveyor belt”
  24. Confrontations
  25. Parting
  26. New encounters
  27. Orphans twice over
  28. Tukhachevsky and others
  29. To Moscow
  30. Transfer
  31. Introduction to Butyrki
  32. The whole of the Comintern
  33. Butyrki nights
  34. In accordance with the law of December 1st
  35. “A fair and speedy trial”
  36. Penal servitude—what bliss!
  37. The Pugachev Tower
  38. The Stolypin coach
  39. Five steps by three
  40. Major Weinstock’s twenty-two commandments
  41. Bright nights and dark days
  42. Captain Glands dog
  43. The underground punishment cell
  44. Comunista Italiana
  45. “Next year in Jerusalem”
  46. Day after day, month after month
  47. A breath of oxygen
  48. A fire in prison
  49. Punishment cell for the second time
  50. Memories of Giordano Bruno
  51. The end of the “monstrous dwarf”
  52. Great expectations
  53. A bathhouse! Just an ordinary bathhouse!
  54. The ruins of SchlĂźsselburg
  55. Part Two
  56. Car Number 7
  57. All sorts to make a world
  58. The transit camp
  59. The S.S. Dzhurma
  60. No luck today, my lady Death!
  61. Light work
  62. Elgen is the Yakut word for “dead”
  63. Tree felling
  64. Salvation from heaven
  65. Epilogue
  66. About the Author
  67. Connect with HMH
  68. Footnotes