|
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works
|
Buy Now
The Diary of a Gulag Prison Guard (Paperback)
Price: R302
Discovery Miles 3 020
|
|
|
The Diary of a Gulag Prison Guard (Paperback)
 (1 rating, sign in to rate)
Price R302
Discovery Miles 3 020
Expected to ship within 7 - 10 working days
|
Donate to Against Period Poverty
Total price: R322
Discovery Miles: 3 220
|
In the archives of the Memorial International Human Rights Centre
in Moscow is an extraordinary diary, a rare first-person testimony
of a commander of guards in a Soviet labour camp. Ivan Chistyakov
was sent to the Gulag in 1937, where he worked at the Baikal-Amur
Corrective Labour Camp for over a year. Life at the Gulag was
anathema to Chistyakov, a cultured Muscovite with a nostalgia for
pre-revolutionary Russia, and an amateur painter and poet. He
recorded its horrors with an unmatchable immediacy, documenting a
world where petty rivalries put lives at risk, prisoners hacked off
their fingers to bet in card games, railway sleepers were burned
for firewood and Siberian winds froze the lather on the soap. From
his stumbling poetic musings on the bitter landscape to his
matter-of-fact grumbles about his stove, from accounts of the
conditions of the camp to reflections on the cruelty of loneliness,
this diary is unique - a visceral and immediate description of a
place and time whose repercussions still affect the shape of modern
Russia.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
