Tag: Gulag

Oct 07 2014

The Unquiet Ghost by Adam Hochschild

By Doug Merrill in Doug, Eastern Europe, History, Politics, Review, Russia
October 7, 2014

The Unquiet Ghost is both a terrific historical and journalistic investigation and a historical document itself, as the author acknowledges in a preface written in 2002, some eight years after the book’s first publication. More than eight more years have passed, and the conditions that made the book both possible and urgent slip ever further …

Adam Hochschild, Doug, Gulag, Russia, Stalin
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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
October 3, 2014

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 …