The Unquiet Ghost is both a terrific historical and journalistic investigation and a historical document itself, as the author acknowledges in a preface written in 2002, some eight years after the book’s first publication.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 …
Tag: Gulag
Oct 07 2014
The Unquiet Ghost by Adam Hochschild
- By Doug Merrill in Doug, Eastern Europe, History, Politics, Review, Russia
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October 7, 2014
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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
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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