From the Preface to Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag, by Orlando Figes: Three old trunks had just been delivered. They were sitting in a doorway, blocking people’s way into the busy room where members of the public and historical researchers were received in the Moscow offices …
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Oct 03 2014
Just Send Me Word by Orlando Figes
- By Doug Merrill in Biography, Doug, Eastern Europe, Excerpt, History, Politics, Russia
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October 3, 2014
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