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The Day Will Pass Away: The Diary of a Gulag Prison Guard: 1935-1936

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The diary offers a rare first-person perspective on the Soviet prison system through the eyes of Ivan Chistyakov, a senior guard at the Baikal Amur Corrective Labour Camp. Despite his role as a guard, he embodies the experience of a prisoner, reflecting on his cultured past and nostalgia for pre-Revolutionary Russia. His writings blend poetic observations of the harsh Taiga landscape with stark realities of camp life, revealing profound insights into loneliness, brutality, and the enduring impact of this era on contemporary Russia and Europe.

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The Day Will Pass Away: The Diary of a Gulag Prison Guard: 1935-1936, Ivan Chistyakov

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Rok wydania
2018
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Tytuł
The Day Will Pass Away: The Diary of a Gulag Prison Guard: 1935-1936
Język
angielski
Rok wydania
2018
Oprawa
miękka
Liczba stron
288
ISBN13
9781681777610
Seria
Ocena
3 z 5
Opis
The diary offers a rare first-person perspective on the Soviet prison system through the eyes of Ivan Chistyakov, a senior guard at the Baikal Amur Corrective Labour Camp. Despite his role as a guard, he embodies the experience of a prisoner, reflecting on his cultured past and nostalgia for pre-Revolutionary Russia. His writings blend poetic observations of the harsh Taiga landscape with stark realities of camp life, revealing profound insights into loneliness, brutality, and the enduring impact of this era on contemporary Russia and Europe.